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CPP: Fachverband Chemische Physik und Polymerphysik

CPP 23: Poster: Polymer Dynamics

CPP 23.1: Poster

Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 11:00–13:00, Poster A

Theoretical Investigations of Semiflexible Dendrimers — •Florian Fürstenberg, Maxim Dolgushev, and Alexander Blumen — Theoretische Polymerphysik, Universität Freiburg, Hermann-Herder-Str. 3, D-79104 Freiburg, Deutschland

Dendrimers are branched, highly regular synthetic polymers. Here we investigate the mechanical relaxation of semiflexible dendrimers of arbitrary functionality f and generation g. We focus on the matrix corresponding to their potential energy^[1] and show that the semi-analytical determination of its (highly degenerate) spectrum can be drastically simplified by using a suitable decomposition scheme^[2].

[1] M. Dolgushev and A. Blumen, J. Chem. Phys. 131, 044905 (2009).

[2] F. Fürstenberg, M. Dolgushev, and A. Blumen, to be published.