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Jan Forsman

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Many-body interactions between particles in a polydisperse polymer fluid

Author

  • Clifford E. Woodward
  • Jan Forsman

Summary, in English

We use a continuum chain model and develop an analytical theory for the interaction between many spheres immersed in a fluid of ideal polydisperse polymers. Assuming local spherical symmetry of the polymer field about each particle, combined with a local approximation, compact expressions are derived for the many-body interaction between the spheres. We use a mean-field approximation to investigate the fluid-fluid phase diagram for the mixture. (C) 2012 American Institute of Physics. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3685834]

Department/s

  • Computational Chemistry
  • eSSENCE: The e-Science Collaboration

Publishing year

2012

Language

English

Publication/Series

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volume

136

Issue

8

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Topic

  • Theoretical Chemistry (including Computational Chemistry)

Keywords

  • approximation theory
  • many-body problems
  • phase diagrams
  • polymers

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0021-9606