Adsorption and collapse transitions in a linear polymer chain near an attractive wall

Rajesh, R. ; Dhar, Deepak ; Giri, Debaprasad ; Kumar, Sanjay ; Singh, Yashwant (2002) Adsorption and collapse transitions in a linear polymer chain near an attractive wall Physical Review E, 65 (5). 056124_1-056124_7. ISSN 1063-651X

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Abstract

We deduce the qualitative phase diagram of a long flexible neutral polymer chain immersed in a poor solvent near an attracting surface using phenomenological arguments. The actual positions of the phase boundaries are estimated numerically from series expansion up to 19 sites of a self-attracting self-avoiding walk in three dimensions. In two dimensions, we calculate phase boundaries analytically in some cases for a partially directed model. Both the numerical and analytical results corroborate the proposed qualitative phase diagram.

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