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http://dx.doi.org/10.5012/jkcs.2007.51.3.227

First Passage Time between Ends of a Polymer Chain

Sung, Jae-Young (Department of Chemistry, Chung-Ang University)

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Journal of the Korean Chemical Society / v.51, no.3, 2007 , pp. 227-231 More about this Journal

Abstract

We improve Wilehemski-Fixmann theory for intrachain reaction dynamics of a polymer chain by taking into account excluded volume effects between reactive groups in the polymerchain. An approximate analytic expression for the intra-chain reaction dynamics is obtained for Gaussian chain model and compared to Brownian dynamics simulation results. The results of the present theory are in a better agreement to Brownian dynamics simulation results than those calculated by previously reported theories.

Keywords

Chain Polymer; Reaction dynamics; Brownian motion; First Passage Time;

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