Description: Adsorption of polymers at nanowires

This title appears in the Scientific Report : 2011

Adsorption of polymers at nanowires

Low-energy structures of a hybrid system consisting of a polymer and an attractive nanowire substrate as well as the thermodynamics of the adsorption transition are studied by means of Monte Carlo computer simulations. Depending on structural and energetic properties of the substrate, we find differ...

Personal Name(s):	Vogel, T.
	Bachmann, M.
Contributing Institute:	Theorie der Weichen Materie und Biophysik; ICS-2 Theorie der Weichen Materie und Biophysik; IAS-2 Theorie der Weichen Materie und Biophysik; IFF-2
Published in:	Computer physics communications, 182 (2011) S. 1928 - 1931
Imprint:	Amsterdam North Holland Publ. Co. 2011
Physical Description:	1928 - 1931
DOI:	10.1016/j.cpc.2010.11.007
Document Type:	Journal Article
Research Program:	BioSoft: Makromolekulare Systeme und biologische Informationsverarbeitung
Series Title:	Computer Physics Communications 182
Subject (ZB):	J Polymer Adsorption Nanowire Microcanonical analysis
	Publikationsportal JuSER

Please use the identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2010.11.007 in citations.

Low-energy structures of a hybrid system consisting of a polymer and an attractive nanowire substrate as well as the thermodynamics of the adsorption transition are studied by means of Monte Carlo computer simulations. Depending on structural and energetic properties of the substrate, we find different adsorbed polymer conformations, amongst which are spherical droplets attached to the wire and monolayer tubes surrounding it. We identify adsorption temperatures and the type of the transition between adsorbed and desorbed structures depending on the substrate attraction strength. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.