Fused hard sphere chains

Example of the fused hard sphere chain model, shown here in a linear configuration.

In the fused hard sphere chain model the molecule is built up form a string of overlapping hard sphere sites, each of diameter $\sigma$.

An effective number of monomers can be applied to the fused hard sphere chain model by using the relarion (Ref. 4 Eq. 2.18)

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where m is the number of monomer units in the model, and Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle L^*=L/\sigma} is the reduced bond length.

The volume of the fused hard sphere chain is given by (Ref. 5 Eq. 13)

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and the surface area is given by (Ref. 5 Eq. 12)

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See also

• Rigid fully flexible fused hard sphere model

References

1. M. Whittle and A. J. Masters "Liquid crystal formation in a system of fused hard spheres", Molecular Physics 72 pp. 247-265 (1991)
2. Carl McBride, Carlos Vega, and Luis G. MacDowell "Isotropic-nematic phase transition: Influence of intramolecular flexibility using a fused hard sphere model" Physical Review E 64 011703 (2001)
3. Carl McBride and Carlos Vega "A Monte Carlo study of the influence of molecular flexibility on the phase diagram of a fused hard sphere model", Journal of Chemical Physics 117 pp. 10370-10379 (2002)
4. Yaoqi Zhou, Carol K. Hall and George Stell "Thermodynamic perturbation theory for fused hard-sphere and hard-disk chain fluids", Journal of Chemical Physics 103 pp. 2688-2695 (1995)
5. T. Boublík, C. Vega, and M. Diaz-Peña "Equation of state of chain molecules", Journal of Chemical Physics 93 pp. pp. 730-736 (1990)