Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2008-11-26
Phys. Rev. E 79, 030802(R) (2009)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
10 pages, 4 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.79.030802
We show that the structural properties and phase behavior of a self-avoiding polymer chain on adhesive substrate, subject to pulling at the chain end, can be obtained by means of a Grand Canonical Ensemble (GCE) approach. We derive analytical expressions for the mean length of the basic structural units of adsorbed polymer, such as loops and tails, in terms of the adhesive potential and detachment force, and determine values of the universal exponents which govern their probability distributions. Most notably, the hitherto controversial value of the critical adsorption exponent $\phi$ is found to depend essentially on the interaction between different loops. The chain detachment transition turns out to be of the first order, albeit dichotomic, i.e., no coexistence of different phase states exists. These novel theoretical predictions and the suggested phase diagram of the adsorption-desorption transformation under external pulling force are verified by means of extensive Monte Carlo simulations.
Bhattacharya Sailajananda
Milchev Andrey
Rostiashvili Vakhtang G.
Vilgis Thomas A.
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