Calculation of the free energy of polymeric systems in terms of compositional and orientational order parameters
Calculation of the free energy of polymeric systems in terms of compositional and orientational order parameters
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根据组成和取向有序参数计算聚合物体系的自由能
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2001
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H. Yokoyama
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J. Fukuda;H. Yokoyama
We present a general framework for the calculation of the free energy functional of inhomogeneous polymeric systems in terms of the compositional scalar order parameter φ and the orientational order parameters of second-rank tensor Qij. Our formalism is a straightforward extension of the density functional theory developed by Tang and Freed [J. Chem. Phys. 94, 1572 (1991)] and the contribution of the conformational entropy is given in terms of the gradient expansion. As a demonstration, we give an exact expression for the free energy of Gaussian chains up to second order in the gradients.