Osmotic virial coefficients
Second virial coefficient[edit]
For an athermal polymer solution the osmotic second virial coefficient is given by:
- Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle B_2 = \frac{1}{2} \iint f( \{ {\mathbf \Omega} \}) f( \{ {\mathbf \Omega}' \}) V_{\rm ex} ( \{ {\mathbf \Omega} \},\{ {\mathbf \Omega}' \}) d \{ {\mathbf \Omega} \} d \{ {\mathbf \Omega}' \}}
where Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle V_{\rm ex} ( \{ {\mathbf \Omega} \},\{ {\mathbf \Omega}' \})} is the excluded volume for two polymers with conformations Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \{ {\mathbf \Omega} \}} and Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \{ {\mathbf \Omega}'\}} . The curly braces denotes an ensemble of molecular configurations for a single polymer.