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Chain Term<br />

Modeling<br />

Originally Wertheim derived in an analytical way the energetic contribution (<strong>and</strong><br />

thus the form of the corresponding EoS) that came about from the association of spherical<br />

particles. One of the successes of the theory came from the fact that, in the limit of<br />

infinitely strong bonding on an infinitely small association site placed at the edge of a<br />

given molecule, one can, in fact, account for polymerization of the monomers. The<br />

resulting equations are both reasonably simple <strong>and</strong> accurate.<br />

Multisegmented chain molecules are formed by imposing strong, covalent-like<br />

bonds on the equisized segments, each of which has one or two bonding sites. To form a<br />

chain of m segment diameters in length, a fluid is created made up of m species of LJ<br />

spheres. Numbering the species 1, 2, 3,…,m it is specified that spheres of type 1 bond only<br />

to spheres of type 2, <strong>and</strong> spheres of type 2 bond only to spheres of type 1 <strong>and</strong> 3, …, <strong>and</strong><br />

spheres of type m bond only to spheres of type m-1. Also it is required that a stoichiometric<br />

ratio of spheres is present. As a result, all the spheres will be forced to bond as specified<br />

<strong>and</strong> thus to create a chain.<br />

The Helmholtz free energy due to the formation of chains from mi spherical<br />

monomers is<br />

A<br />

chain<br />

= RT<br />

n<br />

∑<br />

i=<br />

1<br />

x<br />

i<br />

( − m )<br />

i<br />

( ii)<br />

LJ<br />

1 ln g ( σ )<br />

(III.7)<br />

ii<br />

where R is the ideal gas constant. The pair radial distribution function gLJ (ii) (σii) of the<br />

reference fluid for the interaction of two segments in a mixture of segments, evaluated at<br />

the segment contact σ, provides structural information to the theory at the first-order level.<br />

As explained before, this means that the model assumes conformality between branched<br />

<strong>and</strong> linear isomers of the same number of segments <strong>and</strong> also any information is considered<br />

about the attractive chain self-interaction beyond the formation of bonds.<br />

Association Term<br />

Associating fluids are able to form clusters of associated molecules. The fraction of<br />

clusters of a given size can be estimated by using general statistical arguments (Flory,<br />

1953).<br />

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