| Issue |
EPL
Volume 85, Number 6, March 2009
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| Article Number | 63001 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/85/63001 | |
| Published online | 01 April 2009 | |
Ribbon polymers in poor solvents: Layering transitions in annular and tubular condensates
1
Institut de Physique Théorique, CEA - IPhT, CNRS, URA 2306 - F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France, EU
2
Faculty of Engineering, Takushoku University - Hachioji, Tokyo 193-0985, Japan
3
Research School of Physical Sciences, Australian National University - Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
Corresponding author: y-suzuki@la.takushoku-u.ac.jp
Received:
4
November
2008
Accepted:
23
February
2009
We study the structures of a ribbon or ladder polymer immersed in poor solvents. The anisotropic bending rigidity coupled with the surface tension leads ribbon polymers to spontaneous formation of highly anisotropic condensates in poor solvents. Unlike ordinary flexible polymers these condensates undergo a number of distinct layering transitions as a function of chain length or solvent quality, and the size of condensates becomes a non-monotonic function of chain length. We show that the fluctuations of the condensates are in general small and these condensates are stable.
PACS: 36.20.Ey – Conformation (statistics and dynamics) / 64.70.Nd – Structural transitions in nanoscale materials / 87.15.ad – Analytical theories
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