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EPL
Volume 92, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
EPL ASSOCIATION, EUROPEAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY
DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/92/28003
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) [SFB625/A3]
- European Science Foundation (ESF)
- NIC Juropa [HMZ03]
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When the local intrinsic stiffness of a polymer chain varies over a wide range, one can observe both a crossover from rigid-rod-like behavior to (almost) Gaussian random coils and a further crossover towards self-avoiding walks in good solvents. Using the pruned-enriched Rosenbluth method (PERM) to study self-avoiding walks of up to N-b = 50000 steps and variable flexibility, the applicability of the Kratky-Porod model is tested. Evidence for non-exponential decay of the bond-orientational correlations < cos theta(s)> for large distances s along the chain contour is presented, irrespective of chain stiffness. For bottle-brush polymers on the other hand, where experimentally stiffness is varied via the length of side-chains, it is shown that these cylindrical brushes (with flexible backbones) are not described by the Kratky-Porod worm-like chain model, since their persistence length is (roughly) proportional to their cross-sectional radius, for all conditions of practical interest. Copyright (C) EPLA, 2010
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