Pulling absorbing and collapsing polymers from a surface

Details Pulling absorbing and collapsing polymers from a surface Pulling absorbing and collapsing polymers from a surface

2004-10-08

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0410189v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

4 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/1742-5468/2005/05/P05008

A self-interacting polymer with one end attached to a sticky surface has been studied by means of a flat-histogram stochastic growth algorithm known as FlatPERM. We examined the four-dimensional parameter space of the number of monomers up to 91, self-attraction, surface attraction and force applied to an end of the polymer. Using this powerful algorithm the \emph{complete} parameter space of interactions and force has been considered. Recently it has been conjectured that a hierarchy of states appears at low temperature/poor solvent conditions where a polymer exists in a finite number of layers close to a surface. We find re-entrant behaviour from a stretched phase into these layering phases when an appropriate force is applied to the polymer. We also find that, contrary to what may be expected, the polymer desorbs from the surface when a sufficiently strong critical force is applied and does \emph{not} transcend through either a series of de-layering transitions or monomer-by-monomer transitions.

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