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The properties of semiflexible polymers tethered by one end to an impenetrable wall and exposed to oscillatory shear flow are investigated by mesoscale simulations. A polymer, confined in two dimensions, is described by a linear bead-spring…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-12-14 Antonio Lamura , Roland G. Winkler , Gerhard Gompper

We investigate the effect of knot type on the properties of a ring polymer confined to a slit. For relatively wide slits, the more complex the knot, the more the force exerted by the polymer on the walls is decreased compared to an…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-11-18 R. Matthews , A. A. Louis , J. M. Yeomans

We consider a directed walk model of a homopolymer (in two dimensions) which is self-interacting and can undergo a collapse transition, subject to an applied tensile force. We review and interpret all the results already in the literature…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Brak , P. Dyke , J. Lee , A. L. Owczarek , T. Prellberg , A. Rechnitzer , S. G. Whittington

We study the model of a partially directed flexible or semi-flexible homopolymer on a square lattice, subject to an externally applied force, in a direction either parallel to, or perpendicular to the preferred direction. The polymer is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-19 Pui-Man Lam , Yi Zhen

We write exact equations for the thermodynamic properties of a linear polymer molecule confined to walk on a lattice of finite size. The dimension of the space in which the lattice resides can be arbitrary. We also calculate polymer…

General Physics · Physics 2011-10-04 Esdmund A. Di Marzio , Charles M. Guttman

Lattice model of directed self avoiding walk is used to investigate adsorption properties of a semiflexible sequential copolymer chain on an impenetrable curved surface on a hexagonal lattice in two dimensions. Walks of the copolymer chains…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-06-02 Pramod Kumar Mishra

The depletion interaction between two parallel repulsive walls confining a dilute solution of long and flexible polymer chains is studied by field-theoretic methods. Special attention is paid to self-avoidance between chain monomers…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Schlesener , A. Hanke , R. Klimpel , S. Dietrich

The non-equilibrium structural and dynamical properties of a flexible polymer tethered to a reflecting wall and subject to oscillatory linear flow are studied by numerical simulations. Polymer is confined in two dimensions and is modeled as…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-07-30 A. Lamura

We solve the problem of a chain, modeled as a self-avoiding walk, grafted o the wall limiting a semi-infinite Bethe lattice of arbitrary coordination number q. In particular, we determine the pressure exerted by the polymer on the wall, as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-01-21 Rafael Mynssem Brum , Jurgen F. Stilck

The molecular dynamics simulations were used to obtain the radius of gyration of real ring polymer chains with different topological structures consisting of 360 monomers. We focus on the entropic force which is exerted by a dilute solution…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-01-18 P. Kuterba , Z. Danel , W. Janke

We study self-avoiding walks on the square lattice restricted to a square box of side $L$ weighted by a length fugacity without restriction of their end points. This models a confined polymer in dilute solution. The model admits a phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-07-22 C. J. Bradly , A. L. Owczarek

We consider a system consisting of a planar random walk on a square lattice, submitted to stochastic elementary local deformations. Depending on the deformation transition rates, and specifically on a parameter $\eta$ which breaks the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 Guy Fayolle , Cyril Furtlehner

In this article we study from a non-perturbative point of view the entanglement of two directed polymers subjected to repulsive interactions given by a Dirac $\delta-$function potential. An exact formula of the so-called second moment of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Franco Ferrari , Vakhtang G. Rostiashvili , Thomas A. Vilgis

We study the conformational properties of polymers in presence of extended columnar defects of parallel orientation. Two classes of macromolecules are considered: the so-called partially directed polymers with preferred orientation along…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-10-28 K. Haydukivska , V. Blavatska

The paper presents a short overview of the theoretical, numerical and experimental works on the critical behavior of a dilute polymer solution of long-flexible polymer chains confined in semi-infinite space restricted by a surface or in a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-01-08 Zoryana Usatenko , Krzysztof S. Danel

Stretched polymers with attractive interaction are studied in two and three dimensions. They are described by biased self-avoiding random walks with nearest neighbour attraction. The bias corresponds to opposite forces applied to the first…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Peter Grassberger , Hsiao-Ping Hsu

We analyse the nature of the confinement of an infinitely long (and finite) linear semiflexible homo-polymer chain confined in between two geometrical constraints (A&B) under good solvent condition in two dimensions. The constraints are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-10-16 Pramod Kumar Mishra

We investigate a two-dimensional problem of an isolated self-interacting end-grafted polymer, pulled by one end. In the thermodynamic limit, we find that the model has only two different phases, namely a collapsed phase and a stretched…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Krawczyk , I. Jensen , A. L. Owczarek , S. Kumar

We consider a self-avoiding walk model of polymer adsorption where the adsorbed polymer can be desorbed by the application of a force. In this paper the force is applied normal to the surface at the last vertex of the walk. We prove that…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 E. J. Janse van Rensburg , S. G. Whittington

Single partially confined collapsed polymers are studied in two dimensions. They are described by self-avoiding random walks with nearest-neighbour attractions below the $\Theta$-point, on the surface of an infinitely long cylinder. For the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Hsiao-Ping Hsu , Peter Grassberger