Arrested Spinodal Decomposition in Polymer Brush Collapsing in Poor Solvent
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Arrested spinodal decomposition in polymer brush collapsing in poor solvent
We study the Brownian dynamics of flexible and semiflexible polymer chains densely grafted on a flat substrate, upon rapid quenching of the system when the quality of solvent becomes poor and chains attempt collapse into a globular state. The collapse process of such a polymer brush differs from individual chains, both in its kinetics and its structural morphology. We find that the resulting co...
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عنوان ژورنال: Macromolecules
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0024-9297,1520-5835
DOI: 10.1021/ma501985r