Conformational model of the dipole moment operator of a crystallizing polymer macromolecule in an inhomogeneous temperature field

Abstract

It was previously shown that the polarization characteristics of the polymer, such as the polarization, the surface density of the bound charges, the intensity of the internal electric field of thermal origin, during phase transitions in an inhomogeneous temperature field are determined by the chain conformation [1]. Moreover, these characteristics can be calculated by averaging over all possible conformations of the square of the dipole moment of one macromolecule. In this work, it is shown that the dipole moment of the whole macromolecule can be expressed in terms of the dipole moment of the first monomeric unit of the macromolecule.