Copolymer adsorption kinetics at a selective liquid-liquid interface: Scaling theory and computer experiment

Details Copolymer adsorption kinetics at a selective liquid-liquid interface: Scaling theory and computer experiment Copolymer adsorption kinetics at a selective liquid-liquid interface: Scaling theory and computer experiment

2005-04-03

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0504056v2

Europhys. Lett. 73, 204-210 (2006)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

4 pages, 4 figures, submited to Europhys. Lett

Scientific paper

10.1209/epl/i2005-10372-y

We consider the adsorption kinetics of a regular block-copolymer of total length $N$ and block size $M$ at a selective liquid-liquid interface in the limit of strong localization. We propose a simple analytic theory based on scaling considerations which describes the relaxation of the initial coil into a flat-shaped layer. The characteristic times for attaining equilibrium values of the gyration radius components perpendicular and parallel to the interface are predicted to scale with chain length $N$ and block length $M$ as $\tau_{\perp} \propto M^{1+2\nu}$ (here $\nu\approx 0.6$ is the Flory exponent) and as $\tau_{\parallel} \propto N^2$, although initially the rate of coil flattening is expected to decrease with block size as $\propto M^{-1}$. Since typically $N\gg M$ for multiblock copolymers, our results suggest that the flattening dynamics proceeds faster perpendicular rather than parallel to the interface. We also demonstrate that these scaling predictions agree well with the results of extensive Monte Carlo simulations of the localization dynamics.

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