Polymers grafted to porous membranes

Details Polymers grafted to porous membranes Polymers grafted to porous membranes

2006-08-22

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0608464v1

Europhys Lett. 77, 18003-p1 - 18003-p4, 2007

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

4 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

We study a single flexible chain molecule grafted to a membrane which has pores of size slightly larger than the monomer size. On both sides of the membrane there is the same solvent. When this solvent is good, i.e. when the polymer is described by a self avoiding walk, it can fairly easily penetrate the membrane, so that the average number of membrane crossings tends, for chain length $N\to\infty$, to a positive constant. The average numbers of monomers on either side of the membrane diverges in this limit, although their ratio becomes infinite. For a poor solvent, in contrast, the entire polymer is located, for large $N$, on one side of the membrane. For good and for theta solvents (ideal polymers) we find scaling laws, whose exponents can in the latter case be easily understood from the behaviour of random walks.

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