Polymers in crowded environment under stretching force: globule-coil transitions
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-12-09 v2 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Abstract
We study flexible polymer macromolecules in a crowded (porous) environment, modelling them as self-attracting self-avoiding walks (SASAW) on site-diluted percolative lattices in space dimensions d=2, 3. The influence of stretching force on the polymer folding and properties of globule-coil transitions are analyzed. Applying the pruned-enriched Rosenbluth chain-growth method (PERM), we estimate the transition temperature T_{\Theta} between collapsed and extended polymer configurations and construct the phase diagrams of the globule-coil coexistence when varying temperature and stretching force. The transition to a completely stretched state, caused by applying force, is discussed as well.
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@article{arxiv.0907.2418,
title = {Polymers in crowded environment under stretching force: globule-coil transitions},
author = {V. Blavatska and W. Janke},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.2418},
year = {2009}
}
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