Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol.104, No.15, 6027-6035, 1996
Elastic-Scattering from Diblock Copolymer Chains in Dilute-Solution
The elastic scattering structure factor of a single diblock copolymer chain is calculated up to first order in epsilon(=4-d, with d the dimensionality of the space) with the conformational space renormalization group method. The influence of several thermodynamic conditions on the scattering intensity is analyzed. Our results are compared with small-angle neutron scattering experiments under variable contrast conditions and numerical simulations of the zero average contrast case,