Layering transitions for adsorbing polymers in poor solvents

Details Layering transitions for adsorbing polymers in poor solvents Layering transitions for adsorbing polymers in poor solvents

2004-08-13

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0408310v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

4 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1209/epl/i2004-10524-7

An infinite hierarchy of layering transitions exists for model polymers in solution under poor solvent or low temperatures and near an attractive surface. A flat histogram stochastic growth algorithm known as FlatPERM has been used on a self- and surface interacting self-avoiding walk model for lengths up to 256. The associated phases exist as stable equilibria for large though not infinite length polymers and break the conjectured Surface Attached Globule phase into a series of phases where a polymer exists in specified layer close to a surface. We provide a scaling theory for these phases and the first-order transitions between them.

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