TY - JOUR
T1 - Volume interactions in the statistical physics of a polymer macromolecule
AU - Lifshits, I. M.
AU - Grosberg, Aleksandr Yu
AU - Khokhlov, Alexei R.
PY - 1979/3/31
Y1 - 1979/3/31
N2 - Theoretical approaches to the spatial structure of linear macromolecular chains are reviewed. The associated problems are found to be essentially different when repulsion and attraction between chain elements are respectively dominant. In the case of attraction, the chain condenses on itself and forms a globule with a definite structure which can be analyzed in the self-consistent field approximation. In the case of repulsion, the result is a coil with a fluctuating structure and, in this situation, one must use the methods of scaling theory. The coil-globule transition is also analyzed.
AB - Theoretical approaches to the spatial structure of linear macromolecular chains are reviewed. The associated problems are found to be essentially different when repulsion and attraction between chain elements are respectively dominant. In the case of attraction, the chain condenses on itself and forms a globule with a definite structure which can be analyzed in the self-consistent field approximation. In the case of repulsion, the result is a coil with a fluctuating structure and, in this situation, one must use the methods of scaling theory. The coil-globule transition is also analyzed.
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U2 - 10.1070/PU1979v022n03ABEH005423
DO - 10.1070/PU1979v022n03ABEH005423
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84927494534
SN - 0038-5670
VL - 22
SP - 123
EP - 142
JO - Soviet Physics - Uspekhi
JF - Soviet Physics - Uspekhi
IS - 3
ER -