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Polymer physics

the solvent quality and temperature at which excluded-volume repulsion and segment attraction cancel, so a dissolved polymer chain takes ideal random-walk dimensions.

In polymer physics, theta condition refers to the solvent quality and temperature at which excluded-volume repulsion and segment attraction cancel, so a dissolved polymer chain takes ideal random-walk dimensions. This meaning comes from Flory (1950) in The Journal of Chemical Physics.[1]

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References

Flory, P. J., & Krigbaum, W. R. (1950). Statistical Mechanics of Dilute Polymer Solutions. II. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 18(8), 1086-1094. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1747866

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