title: Density functional approach for inhomogeneous star polymer fluids.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University Prague, Praha 8, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Malijevský
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bryk
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sokołowski