Diffusive Spreading of Chainlike Molecules on Surfaces

Details Diffusive Spreading of Chainlike Molecules on Surfaces Diffusive Spreading of Chainlike Molecules on Surfaces

1996-04-16

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9604097v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

3 pages, RevTeX, 4 postscript figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. Letters (1996)

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.4003

We study the diffusion and submonolayer spreading of chainlike molecules on surfaces. Using the fluctuating bond model we extract the collective and tracer diffusion coefficients D_c and D_t with a variety of methods. We show that D_c(theta) has unusual behavior as a function of the coverage theta. It first increases but after a maximum goes to zero as theta go to one. We show that the increase is due to entropic repulsion that leads to steep density profiles for spreading droplets seen in experiments. We also develop an analytic model for D_c(theta) which agrees well with the simulations.

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