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J. Phys. II France
Volume 5, Number 3, March 1995
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| Page(s) | 343 - 347 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/jp2:1995135 | |
DOI: 10.1051/jp2:1995135
J. Phys. II France 5 (1995) 343-347
1 Institute for Physical Chemistry, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1040 Sofia, Bulgaria
2 INRA Versailles, Station de Science du Sol, Route de Saint-Cyr, 78026 Versailles, France
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J. Phys. II France 5 (1995) 343-347
A Monte Carlo Study of Thermodynamic Relaxation in Living Polymers
Andrey Milchev1 and Yannick Rouault21 Institute for Physical Chemistry, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1040 Sofia, Bulgaria
2 INRA Versailles, Station de Science du Sol, Route de Saint-Cyr, 78026 Versailles, France
(Received 23 December 1994, accepted 10 January 1995)
Abstract
We report the first numeric experiments on the thermodynamic relaxation in living polymers (polymers that can break and recombine
reversibly) whose molecular weight distribution (MWD) is perturbed from equilibrium by a T-jump and then allowed to relax.
In the simulation we use a modification of the Bond Fluctuation Method which is known to reproduce the correct Rouse dynamics
of polymer chains. Our results indicate an excellent agreement with the predictions of a recently suggested theory [1, 2]
of relaxation in living polymer systems.
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