%0 Journal Article
%T Disorder effects on the static scattering function of star branched polymers
%A V. Blavatska
%A C. von Ferber
%A Yu. Holovatch
%J Condensed Matter Physics
%D 2012
%I Institute for Condensed Matter Physics
%X We present an analysis of the impact of structural disorder on the static scattering function of f-armed star branched polymers in d dimensions. To this end, we consider the model of a star polymer immersed in a good solvent in the presence of structural defects, correlated at large distances r according to a power law ~r-a. In particular, we are interested in the ratio g(f) of the radii of gyration of star and linear polymers of the same molecular weight, which is a universal experimentally measurable quantity. We apply a direct polymer renormalization approach and evaluate the results within the double   = 4 - d, ¦Ä = 4 - a-expansion. We find an increase of g(f) with an increasing ¦Ä. Therefore, an increase of disorder correlations leads to an increase of the size measure of a star relative to linear polymers of the same molecular weight.
%K polymers
%K structural disorder
%K universality
%K renormalization group
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.5488/CMP.15.33603