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  • Title: Effect of attractive interactions on the structure of polymer melts confined between surfaces: a density-functional approach.
    Author: Goel T, Patra CN, Ghosh SK, Mukherjee T.
    Journal: J Chem Phys; 2005 Jun 01; 122(21):214910. PubMed ID: 15974793.
    Abstract:
    A density-functional theory is presented to study the structure of polymers, having attractive interactions, confined between attractive surfaces. The theory treats the ideal-gas free-energy functional exactly and uses weighted density approximation for the hard-chain contribution to the excess free-energy functional. The bulk interactions of freely jointed hard spheres are obtained from generalized Flory equation of state and the attractive interactions are calculated using the direct correlation function obtained from the polymer reference interaction site model theory along with the mean spherical approximation closure. The theoretical predictions are found to be in quite good agreement with the Monte Carlo simulation results for varying densities, chain lengths, and different interaction potentials. The results confirm important implications of using different approximations for the hard-sphere and attractive interactions.
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