| Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 47, Number 6, September II 1999
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|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | 694 - 700 | |
| Section | Condensed matter: structure, mechanical and thermal properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i1999-00445-5 | |
| Published online | 01 September 2002 | |
Polymer adsorption on fluctuating surfaces
Department of Physics - University of Prince Edward Island Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada C1A 4P3
Received:
8
December
1998
Accepted:
9
July
1999
We investigate the adsorption of semi-dilute polymer solutions on fluctuating surfaces by means of a Langevin simulation of the de Gennes-Ginzburg-Landau free energy functional. Our numerical results show that the adsorbed polymers lead to a general stiffness of the surface as characterized by an increase of the surface tension. However, we found that the bending rigidity decreases with increasing the adsorption strength. Our results are further explained by a mean-field argument of the de Gennes-Ginzburg-Landau model.
PACS: 68.10.-m – Fluid surfaces and fluid-fluid interfaces / 61.25.Hq – Macromolecular and polymer solutions; polymer melts; swelling / 87.16.Dg – Membranes, bilayers, and vesicles
© EDP Sciences, 1999
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