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Polymers on a Random Liquid Surface

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2011

Bertrand Duplantier
Bertrand Duplantier*
Affiliation:
Northwestern University, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Evanston, IL 60208 and Service de Physique Theorique de Saclay, 91191 Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, FRANCE.
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Abstract

We report a recent theoretical study of polymers moving on a random two-dimensional fluid surface. The metric of the liquid membrane is free to fluctuate and these new degrees of freedom couple to those of the polymers - as a result, the critical exponents describing the polymers are changed, but are nevertheless related to those in two dimensions. The relation to possible experimental studies on membranes with vanishing surface tension, which should search for new universal values of exponents u and 7, is discussed.

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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 177: Symposium V – Macromolecular Liquids , 1989 , 373
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1990

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