Kuhn, Paulo S.; Barbosa, Marcia C. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 357 (2005) 1, pp. 142-149
We present a model for describing flexible polyelectrolytes in a good solvent and in the presence of monovalent salt. The molecule composed by N monomers is characterized by the end-to-end distance Re=b(Z-1)γ and the number of associated counterions n. At high temperatures the polyelectrolyte...