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Maxim Dolgushev1,2, Denis A Markelov3,4, Florian Fürstenberg1, Thomas Guérin5.
Abstract
We study the dynamics of local bond orientation in regular hyperbranched polymers modeled by Vicsek fractals. The local dynamics is investigated through the temporal autocorrelation functions of single bonds and the corresponding relaxation forms of the complex dielectric susceptibility. We show that the dynamic behavior of single segments depends on their remoteness from the periphery rather than on the size of the whole macromolecule. Remarkably, the dynamics of the core segments (which are most remote from the periphery) shows a scaling behavior that differs from the dynamics obtained after structural average. We analyze the most relevant processes of single segment motion and provide an analytic approximation for the corresponding relaxation times. Furthermore, we describe an iterative method to calculate the orientational dynamics in the case of very large macromolecular sizes.Entities:
Year: 2016 PMID: 27575171 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.94.012502
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Phys Rev E ISSN: 2470-0045 Impact factor: 2.529