Aggregation phenomena in telechelic star polymer solutions.
Lo Verso FChimie Analytique et Biophysico-chimie de l' Environnement (CABE), Université de Genève-Sciences II, 30 Quai Ernest-Ansermet, CH-1211 Genève 4, Switzerland.
Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics. - 2009
English
Telechelic star polymers are macromolecules with functionalized, mutually attractive end groups. We employ computer simulations on a lattice to investigate the phase behavior of trifunctional telechelic stars as a function of the fraction lambda of attractive terminal monomers. We find macrophase separation that disappears at some value 0.4