Statistical mechanics of solutions of semiflexible chains: A path integral formulation
- 1 January 1987
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 86 (1) , 411-418
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.452579
Abstract
A path integral formulation has been used to study the behavior of a single chain in the solution of many semiflexible chains. The Flory–Huggins approximation on lattices suggests that the chains undergo a phase transition from a high temperature isotropic phase to an anisotropic phase where the chains are rod‐like. Using a self‐consistent approximation, we, however, find that, at any stiffness, long chains (in the limit of the chain length going to infinity) remain in the disordered state.Keywords
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