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Semiflexible Polymers Interacting with Planar Surfaces: Weak versus Strong Adsorption

Kurt BinderAndrey Milchev

subject

Phase transitionPolymers and Plastics02 engineering and technology01 natural sciencesMolecular physicsGyrationArticlelcsh:QD241-441Molecular dynamicschain rigiditylcsh:Organic chemistry0103 physical sciencesPerpendicularMolecule010306 general physicspolymersPhysicschemistry.chemical_classificationPersistence lengthQuantitative Biology::Biomoleculesfood and beveragesGeneral ChemistryPolymer021001 nanoscience & nanotechnologymolecular dynamicsphase transitionsCondensed Matter::Soft Condensed MatterDistribution functionchemistryadsorption0210 nano-technology

description

Semiflexible polymers bound to planar substrates by a short-range surface potential are studied by Molecular Dynamics simulations to clarify the extent to which these chain molecules can be considered as strictly two-dimensional. Applying a coarse-grained bead-spring model, the chain length N and stiffness &kappa

10.3390/polym12020255http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC7077214