Structure of one-component polymer brushes: Groundstate considerations
Soft Condensed Matter
2014-02-19 v1
Abstract
A coarse-grained model to describe the lateral structure of a one-component polymer brush is presented. In this model, a single polymer chain is described by just two coordinates, namely the position of the grafted monomer, and the monomer on the non-grafted end. Due to its simplicity, the lateral arrangement of large numbers of structural units, each unit containing hundreds of polymers, can be analyzed. We consider here the corresponding low-energy configurations. Provided the grafting density is large enough, the latter all feature hexagonal order, even when the grafted monomers are distributed randomly.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1402.4270,
title = {Structure of one-component polymer brushes: Groundstate considerations},
author = {Richard L. C. Vink},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.4270},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
6 pages, 6 figures