Static Properties of a Star Polymer in a High Molecular Weight Solvent

C. Gay , E. Raphaël

Recently, Raphaël, Pincus and Fredrickson considered the static properties of an isolated star polymer (f arms, N monomers per arm) dissolved in a melt of linear chains of degree of polumerization P < N, which are chemically identical to the star arms (Macromolecules 26 (1993) 1996). In the present article we show that the results obtained by these authors are valid only for stars with a high enough number f>P1/2. For faPf-1. Our study is restricted to scaling laws; the exact prefactores in our formulae remain undetermined.

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C. Gay, E. Raphaël. Static Properties of a Star Polymer in a High Molecular Weight Solvent. Journal de Physique II, 1996, 6 (5), pp.587-591. ⟨10.1051/jp2:1996199⟩. ⟨jpa-00248319⟩