Hybrid Ising mean-field treatment of melt transitions: Application to polymethylene
- 1 October 1975
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 46 (10) , 4218-4222
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.321446
Abstract
A hybrid Ising mean-field model is developed to account for the conformational and configurational origins of transitions in dense chain molecular fluids. The model is applied to polymethylene. The role of intermolecular interactions in controlling both the melt transition temperature and the extent of the degree of cooperativity is demonstrated. Near quantitative agreement of the transition-temperature and heat-capacity behavior is achieved when a linear correction term to describe interchain melting is incorporated in the general model.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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