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A fast way of solving Jonah and coworkers' equations to evaluate anisotropic-isotropic transition temperatures of semirigid polymers
✍ Scribed by Giuseppe Figari; Camilla Costa
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 379 KB
- Volume
- 6
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1022-1344
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
A fast and simple method has been found to solve the set of equations recently proposed by Jonah, Brostow and Hess [Macromolecules 26, 76 (1993)], allowing the evaluation of the anisotropic‐isotropic transition temperature for a semirigid liquid polymer. Starting with given values of η (average length of the rigid sequences coexisting with flexible sequences inside the semiflexible polymer chains) and θ (degree of rigidity of the semirigid polymer), a reduced transition temperature τ is readily obtained, together with the transition values of the anisotropic order parameters s and γ.