Virial expansion for weakly correlated polymer solutions

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-1981

Abstract

A recent paper by Eichinger solved for the radial distribution function g(r) and the osmotic pressure for polymer solutions, starting from a linearized hypernetted chain (HNC) equation with the assumption that the force between pairs of molecules is governed by the Flory-Krigbaum potential. It is pointed out here that some of these results can be extended by treating the full HNC equation. Simple analytical expressions for g(r) and for the virial coefficients which are of a much broader range of applicability are derived. © 1981 The American Physical Society.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

Physical Review A

First Page

3328

Last Page

3331

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