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MACROMOLECULES
Volume 47, Issue 2, Pages 851-869Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ma401694u
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- National Science Foundation (NSF) [DMR-0907338]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) [GL 733/1-1]
- NSF [OCI-0910735]
- Direct For Computer & Info Scie & Enginr
- Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) [0910735] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We present a detailed comparison of simulations of disordered melts of symmetric AB diblock copolymers to predictions of the renormalized one-loop (ROL) theory. The behaviors of the structure factor S(q) and of single-chain correlations are studied over a range of chain lengths (N = 16, ..., 128) for two models: one with harshly repulsive pair interactions and another with very soft interactions. The ROL theory is shown to provide an excellent description of the dependence of S(q) on chain length and thermodynamic conditions for both models, even for very short chains, if we allow for the existence of a nonlinear dependence of the effective interaction parameter chi(e) upon the strength of the AB repulsion. The decrease in peak wavenumber q* with increasing chi(e) is shown to be unrelated to changes in single-chain correlations. Results for all quantities are consistent with the hypothesis that the ROL theory gives an exact description of the dominant O((N) over bar (-1/2)) corrections to RPA and random-walk predictions in the limit of infinite chain length N.
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