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SUBMITTER: Tito NB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5746847 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Macromolecules 20171205 24
A lattice model based on polymer self-consistent field theory is developed to predict the equilibrium statistics of arbitrary polymer networks. For a given network topology, our approach uses moment propagators on a lattice to self-consistently construct the ensemble of polymer conformations and cross-link spatial probability distributions. Remarkably, the calculation can be performed "in the dark", without any prior knowledge on preferred chain conformations or cross-link positions. Numerical r ...[more]