Excluded Volume Effects in Polymer Solutions

as Explained by the Renormalization Group

Excluded Volume Effects in Polymer Solutions

as Explained by the Renormalization Group

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1. Power Laws, Scaling, Universal Crossover - a Survey of Phenomenology
I. Basic Theoretical Techniques
2. From a Microscopic Description to Simple Models
3. The Noninteracting Gaussian Chain
4. The Cluster Expansion
5. Grand Canonical Description of Solutions at Finite Concentration
6. Breakdown of the Expansions in the Excluded Volume Region
7*. Continuous Chain Model and Naive Two Parameter Theory
II. Renormalization Group and Scaling
8. The Renormalization Group: Fundamental Aspects
9. Scaling Theory
10*. More Complicated Interactions and the General Structure of the Renormalization Group
III. Field Theoretic Formulation of the Theory
11. Renormalized Perturbation Theory and Field-Theoretic Renormalization Group
12. Dimensional Regularization and Minimal Subtraction
13. Quantitative Form of the Renormalization Group Mapping
14. The Renormalized Tree Approximation: a Simple Illustration of the Theory
IV. One Loop Approximation: Detailed Results and Comparison to Experiment
15. Dilute Limit: Density Correlations, Virial Coefficients, and Interpénétration Ratio
16. Dilute Limit: Details on the Internal Structure of Isolated Coils
17. Thermodynamic Quantities for Finite Overlap
18. Density Autocorrelations at Finite Overlap
19. The Density Cumulant
20. Summarizing Overview
V. Special Topics
21. The ?-Region
22. Multicomponent Solutions.
ISBN 978-3-642-64254-8
Media type Book
Copyright year 2011
Publisher Springer, Berlin
Length XVII, 554 pages
Language English