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布朗硬球液体中分子拥挤理论及其在polymer线团-球转变中的应用

Theory of molecular crowding in Brownian hard-sphere liquids with application to the polymer coil-globule transition

Alessio Zaccone, Eugene M. Terentjev

摘要:

导出了液态布朗分子平均力的解析对势。我们的方法占拥挤的液体粒子的多粒子相关性,并在稠密的环境中的空间调制的局部密度的拥挤的扩散运输。专门的限制等尺寸的颗粒,我们表明,这种扩散运输导致额外的密度和结构相关的条款的相互作用潜力,和一个更强的吸引力(由一个因素~4在平均体积分数的拥挤0.25)比在标准的耗尽相互作用中的扩散效应被忽略。作为该理论的一个例证,我们用它来研究惰性拥挤溶液中聚合物链的尺寸。即使在无热背景溶剂的情况下,当一个经典的链应该是完全溶胀,我们发现一个尖锐的线圈球过渡的理想链崩溃在临界值的拥挤体积分数~0.145。

英文摘要:

We derive an analytical pair potential of mean force for Brownian molecules in the liquid-state. Our approach accounts for many-particle correlations of crowding particles of the liquid, and for diffusive transport across the spatially modulated local density of crowders in the dense environment. Specializing on the limit of equal-size particles, we show that this diffusive transport leads to additional density- and structure-dependent terms in the interaction potential, and to a much stronger attraction (by a factor ~4 at average volume fraction of crowders 0.25) than in the standard depletion interaction where the diffusive effects are neglected. As an illustration of the theory, we use it to study the size of a polymer chain in a solution of inert crowders. Even in the case of athermal background solvent, when a classical chain should be fully swollen, we find a sharp coil-globule transition of the ideal chain collapsing at a critical value of the crowder volume fraction ~0.145.

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