Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2003-03-05
Europhys. Lett. v.63, p.895 (2003)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
7 pages, submitted to Europhysics Letters
Scientific paper
10.1209/epl/i2003-00602-4
We study polymer layers formed by irreversible adsorption from a polymer melt. Our theory describes an experiment which is a ``slow'' version of that proposed by Guiselin [Europhys. Lett., v. 17 (1992) p. 225] who considered instantaneously irreversibly adsorbing chains and predicted a universal density profile of the layer after swelling with solvent to produce the ``Guiselin brush.'' Here we ask what happens when adsorption is not instantaneous. The classic example is chemisorption. In this case the brush is formed slowly and the final structure depends on the experiment's duration, $t_{final}$. We find the swollen layer consists of an inner region of thickness $z^* \sim t_{final}^{-5/3}$ with approximately constant density and an outer region extending up to height $h \sim N^{5/6}$ which has the same density decay $\sim z^{-2/5}$ as for the Guiselin case.
O'Shaughnessy Ben
Vavylonis Dimitrios
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