{"title":"The dimensions of a polymer chain at the coil-to-globule transition","authors":"P Romiszowski, A Sikorski","doi":"10.1016/S1089-3156(99)00087-2","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Simple models of the star-branched and linear polymers were studied by means of a Monte Carlo method. The chains were confined on a simple cubic lattice. Star-branched polymers consisted of <em>f</em>=3 arms of equal length. The total number of beads in both types of polymers was varied from <em>N</em>=49 to <em>N</em>=799. The simulations were performed in different solvent qualities—from a good solvent to a collapsed globule regime. The static properties of the chains under consideration were measured as functions of the temperature of the system. It appeared that the ratio of the radius of gyration to the mean end-to-end vector is very sensitive to solvent quality. It shows that the coil-to-globule transition is a complicated phenomenon. The possible explanation of the phenomenon is discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100309,"journal":{"name":"Computational and Theoretical Polymer Science","volume":"11 2","pages":"Pages 129-131"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2001-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1089-3156(99)00087-2","citationCount":"5","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Computational and Theoretical Polymer Science","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1089315699000872","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Simple models of the star-branched and linear polymers were studied by means of a Monte Carlo method. The chains were confined on a simple cubic lattice. Star-branched polymers consisted of f=3 arms of equal length. The total number of beads in both types of polymers was varied from N=49 to N=799. The simulations were performed in different solvent qualities—from a good solvent to a collapsed globule regime. The static properties of the chains under consideration were measured as functions of the temperature of the system. It appeared that the ratio of the radius of gyration to the mean end-to-end vector is very sensitive to solvent quality. It shows that the coil-to-globule transition is a complicated phenomenon. The possible explanation of the phenomenon is discussed.
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