Abstract
De Gennes has shown that the properties of an isolated polymer in a solution (a chain with excluded volume) can be deduced within the framework of a Lagrangian theory for a zero component field in the absence of an external field. This result in generalized to the case of polymer solutions at intermediate concentrations. It is shown that a grand ensemble of polymers can be described by using a Lagrangian theory for a zero component field coupled to an external field. The concentrations Cp of polymers (chains) and C m of monomers (links) are fixed by two chemical potentials. It is shown that the osmotic pressure obeys a scaling law of the form (P/KTCp) = F(Cp N3ν) where N is the mean number of monomers per polymer (N = Cp/C m) and ν the critical index defining the size of a long isolated polymer. The function F(λ) can be expanded in powers of λ and it is given implicitly by the generating functional of the zero-momentum vertex functions derived from the Lagrangian theory. The results seem to be in good agreement with experiments.
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LagrangianPolymerMaterials scienceClassical mechanicsPhysicsMathematical physicsComposite material
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J. des Cloizeaux
(1975).
The Lagrangian theory of polymer solutions at intermediate concentrations.
Journal de physique
, 36
(4)
, 281-291.
https://doi.org/10.1051/jphys:01975003604028100
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- 10.1051/jphys:01975003604028100