caa a22 4500 378903306 CHVBK 20180305123523.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20041201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1515/epoly.2004.4.1.195 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/epoly.2004.4.1.195 Roovers Jacques 21 Wren Road, Ottawa, Ontario, K1J 7H5, Canada Conformational properties of dendritic polymers with variable branching functionality in their generational shells [Elektronische Daten] [Jacques Roovers] The shrinkage factors, g, of long-chain dendritic polymers with different branching functionalities in their generational shells are derived in the Gaussian approximation. The equations for generations zero (star) to 3 are given explicitly in a form that can be extrapolated easily to higher generation number. Examples of the evolution of the shrinkage factors with branching functionality are given. The form factors, P(x), of the same dendritic polymers are also derived. The equations can be extrapolated to higher generation number and easily incorporated into a simple calculation program. Comparisons are made with regular stars with the same number of arms as the peripheral subchains in the dendrimers. It is found that 3rd generation dendritic polymers with low branch functionality (= 3) are less sphere-like than the star with 24 arms, but the 3rd generation dendrimer with functionality 5 is more sphere-like than the star with 108 arms. © 2013 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. e-Polymers De Gruyter 4/1(2004-12-01), 195-203 2197-4586 4:1<195 2004 4 epoly https://doi.org/10.1515/epoly.2004.4.1.195 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/epoly.2004.4.1.195 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Roovers Jacques 21 Wren Road, Ottawa, Ontario, K1J 7H5, Canada NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- e-Polymers De Gruyter 4/1(2004-12-01), 195-203 2197-4586 4:1<195 2004 4 epoly CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter