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Structure factor and thermodynamics of rigid dendrimers in solution.

Harnau L, Rosenfeldt S, Ballauff M

Max-Planck-Institut für Metallforschung, Heisenbergstrasse 3, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany.

The "polymer reference interaction site model" (PRISM) integral equation theory is used to determine the structure factor of rigid dendrimers in solution. The theory is quite successful in reproducing experimental structure factors for various dendrimer concentrations. In addition, the structure factor at vanishing scattering vector is calculated via the compressibility equation using scaled particle theory and fundamental measure theory. The results as predicted by both theories are systematically smaller than the experimental and PRISM data for platelike dendrimers.

Published 13 July 2007 in J Chem Phys, 127(1): 014901.
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