Field theoretical analysis of adsorption of polymer chains at surfaces: Critical exponents and Scaling

Details Field theoretical analysis of adsorption of polymer chains at surfaces: Critical exponents and Scaling Field theoretical analysis of adsorption of polymer chains at surfaces: Critical exponents and Scaling

2005-11-17

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0511429v1

J.Stat.Mech. P03009 (2006)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

22 pages, 12 figures, 4 tables

Scientific paper

10.1088/1742-5468/2006/03/P03009

The process of adsorption on a planar repulsive, "marginal" and attractive wall of long-flexible polymer chains with excluded volume interactions is investigated. The performed scaling analysis is based on formal analogy between the polymer adsorption problem and the equivalent problem of critical phenomena in the semi-infinite $|\phi|^4$ n-vector model (in the limit $n\to 0$) with a planar boundary. The whole set of surface critical exponents characterizing the process of adsorption of long-flexible polymer chains at the surface is obtained. The polymer linear dimensions parallel and perpendicular to the surface and the corresponding partition functions as well as the behavior of monomer density profiles and the fraction of adsorbed monomers at the surface and in the interior are studied on the basis of renormalization group field theoretical approach directly in d=3 dimensions up to two-loop order for the semi-infinite $|\phi|^4$ n-vector model. The obtained field- theoretical results at fixed dimensions d=3 are in good agreement with recent Monte Carlo calculations. Besides, we have performed the scaling analysis of center-adsorbed star polymer chains with $f$ arms of the same length and we have obtained the set of critical exponents for such system at fixed d=3 dimensions up to two-loop order.

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