Disordered heteropolymers: models for biomimetic polymers and polymers with frustrating quenched disorder

AK Chakraborty - Physics Reports, 2001 - Elsevier
The ability to design and synthesize polymers that can perform functions with great
specificity would impact advanced technologies in important ways. Biological …

The mechanism of copolymer retention in interactive polymer chromatography. I. Critical point of adsorption for statistical copolymers

Y Brun - Journal of liquid chromatography & related …, 1999 - Taylor & Francis
A comprehensive analysis of interactive polymer chromatography is presented. Isocratic
liquid chromatography of polymers at the critical eluent composition (the transition point …

Adsorption-freezing transition for random heteropolymers near disordered 2D manifolds due to “pattern matching”

S Srebnik, AK Chakraborty, EI Shakhnovich - Physical review letters, 1996 - APS
We study the simplest model for random heteropolymers near chemically disordered
surfaces, and predict a new phenomenon that may have implications for pattern recognition …

Lateral inhomogeneous lipid membranes: theoretical aspects

A Raudino - Advances in colloid and interface science, 1995 - Elsevier
The physical concepts underlying the lateral distribution of the components forming
alamellar assembly of amphiphiles are discussed in this review. The role of amphiphiles' …

Adsorption of multiblock copolymers onto a chemically heterogeneous surface: A model of pattern recognition

YA Kriksin, PG Khalatur, AR Khokhlov - The Journal of chemical …, 2005 - pubs.aip.org
We present a statistical mechanical model, which is used to investigate the adsorption
behavior of two-letter (AB) copolymers on chemically heterogeneous surfaces. The surfaces …

Effects of Physical Heterogeneity on the Adsorption of Poly (ethylene oxide) at a Solid− Liquid Interface

YW Huang, VK Gupta - Macromolecules, 2001 - ACS Publications
Experiments on the adsorption of PEO from aqueous solutions onto planar surfaces that are
physically heterogeneous but chemically homogeneous are presented. Gold substrates that …

A simple theory and Monte Carlo simulations for recognition between random heteropolymers and disordered surfaces

AK Chakraborty, D Bratko - The Journal of chemical physics, 1998 - pubs.aip.org
We study the adsorption of random heteropolymers (RHPs) on disordered multifunctional
surfaces. Recent replica calculations suggest that when the statistics describing the …

Molecular dynamics study of adsorption and spreading of a polymer chain onto a flat surface

H Liu, A Chakrabarti - Polymer, 1999 - Elsevier
We present results from a series of molecular dynamics simulations for adsorption and
spreading of polymer chains onto a flat surface. We consider both homopolymer chains and …

Polymer adsorption onto random planar surfaces: Interplay of polymer and surface correlations

A Polotsky, F Schmid, A Degenhard - The Journal of chemical physics, 2004 - pubs.aip.org
We study the adsorption of homogeneous or heterogeneous polymers onto heterogeneous
planar surfaces with exponentially decaying site-site correlations, using a variational …

Dependence of the critical adsorption point on surface and sequence disorders for self-avoiding walks interacting with a planar surface

JD Ziebarth, Y Wang, A Polotsky, M Luo - Macromolecules, 2007 - ACS Publications
The critical adsorption point (CAP) of self-avoiding walks (SAW) interacting with a planar
surface with surface disorder or sequence disorder has been studied. We present theoretical …