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Symmetry breaking in polydisperse star-branched polymers grown by diffusion

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Abstract Book of the XXIII IUPAP International Conference on Statistical Physics, Genova, Italy, (9-13 July 2007)

Abstract

We present results for the structure properties and polydispersity of two-dimensional star-branched polymers with a total of 50,000 monomers whose morpholofy is fully determined by diffusion. We calculated the fractal dimension of the star-branched structures and studied the scaling properties of the radius of gyration. From an analysis of the polydispersity of star polymer s with 24, 18, and 12 arms we found that only 6 arms define the structure of the aggregate at relatively large distances from the central colloid. This work has been supported by DGAPA-UNAM ad CONACYT under grants IN-110103 and 43596-F, respectively.

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