Adsorption of a single polymer chain on a surface: Effects of the potential range

LI Klushin, AA Polotsky, HP Hsu, DA Markelov… - Physical Review E …, 2013 - APS
We investigate the effects of the range of adsorption potential on the equilibrium behavior of
a single polymer chain end-attached to a solid surface. The exact analytical theory for ideal …

Translocation and induced permeability of random amphiphilic copolymers interacting with lipid bilayer membranes

M Werner, JU Sommer - Biomacromolecules, 2015 - ACS Publications
We investigate adsorption and passive translocation of random amphiphilic copolymers
interacting with a self-assembled lipid bilayer membrane. By using the bond fluctuation …

Nonmonotonic Impact of Statistical Copolymer Composition on the Kinetics of Capillary Rise Infiltration

TY Heo, T Ienn, J Bernard, RA Riggleman… - Macromolecules, 2024 - ACS Publications
Infiltration dynamics of poly (styrene-stat-2-vinylpyridine)(PS-stat-P2VP) statistical
copolymers (StCPs) undergoing capillary rise infiltration into the interstices of silica …

Effect of Poly (vinyl butyral) Comonomer Sequence on Adhesion to Amorphous Silica: A Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamics Study

CC Walker, J Genzer, EE Santiso - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Modulating a comonomer sequence, in addition to the overall chemical composition, is the
key to unlocking the true potential of many existing commercial copolymers. We employ …

Tailoring the near-surface composition profiles of pressure-sensitive adhesive films and the resulting mechanical properties

A Diethert, K Ecker, Y Peykova… - … applied materials & …, 2011 - ACS Publications
We present a possibility of tailoring the near-surface composition profiles of pressure
sensitive adhesive (PSA) films by an exposure to atmospheres of different relative humidities …

Near-surface composition profiles and the adhesive properties of statistical copolymer films being model systems of pressure sensitive adhesive films

A Diethert, Y Peykova, N Willenbacher… - … Applied Materials & …, 2010 - ACS Publications
Statistical copolymer films that consist of two types of monomers, a sticky and a glassy
monomer, are investigated. These model systems of pressure-sensitive adhesive films are …

Semiflexible magnetic filaments near attractive flat surfaces: a Langevin dynamics study

PA Sánchez, JJ Cerda, V Ballenegger, T Sintes, O Piro… - Soft Matter, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
The adsorption of stiff magnetic filaments close to an attractive surface is studied thoroughly
via extensive Langevin dynamics simulations (LD). Magnetic filaments are represented by a …

Simulations of a grafted dendritic polyelectrolyte in electric fields

JS Kłos, JU Sommer - Macromolecules, 2015 - ACS Publications
Using Monte Carlo simulations based on the bond fluctuation model, we study the behavior
of a charged dendrimer grafted on one of the electrodes of a plate capacitor in an athermal …

Critical adsorption of copolymer tethered on selective surfaces

H Li, CJ Qian, MB Luo - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Critical adsorption behaviors of flexible copolymer chains tethered to a flat homogeneous
surface are studied by using Monte Carlo simulations. We have compared the critical …

On the structural polydispersity of random copolymers adsorbed at interfaces: comparison of surface and bulk distributions

SV Lishchuk, R Ettelaie, T Annable - Molecular Physics, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Synthesis of random copolymers leads to a structurally polydispersed distribution of polymer
chains, where one of the constituent monomers prefers residing on the interface, while the …