Density functional approach for inhomogeneous star polymer fluids.
We propose microscopic density functional theory for inhomogeneous star polymer fluids. Our approach is based on fundamental measure theory for hard spheres, and on Wertheim's first- and second-order perturbation theory for the interparticle connectivity. For simplicity we consider a model in which all the arms are of the same length, but our approach can be easily extended to the case of stars with arms of arbitrary lengths.
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Institute of Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University Prague, Praha 8, Czech Republic.
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Sokołowski
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