Excluded‐volume effect for various chain models. I. Application to optical anisotropy and end‐to‐end distance of linear polymers

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A study of the effect of excluded volume on the mean‐square optical anisotropy 〈γ2〉 and the mean‐square end‐to‐end distance 〈R2〉 has been carried out for polymer chains of up to 2000 bonds. The calculations have been made for models assuming (a) equiprobability of internal rotations and (b) interdependence of short‐range intramolecular interactions. All the results indicate that 〈γ2〉 is practically insensitive to the excluded‐volume effect. Concomitantly the behavior of 〈R2〉 has been analyzed.

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