The shape of linear and star-branched nonreversal random walks embedded in a tetrahedral lattice

✍ Scribed by Gerhard Zifferer

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 359 KB
• Volume: 4
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1022-1344
• DOI: 10.1002/mats.1995.040040109

✦ Synopsis

The shape-asymmetry of linear and star-branched nonreversal random walk polymers on a tetrahedral lattice is studied by means of a Monte Carlo simulation. Properties characteristic of the instantaneous shape based on the mean-square radius of gyration and its principal components as well as based on the end-to-end distance are discussed. Short-chain effects are characterized by polynomial expressions (power series of N -' ), simultaneously by extrapolation yielding a result in the limit of infinitely large configurations.