Issue |
EPL
Volume 93, Number 1, January 2011
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Article Number | 18002 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Interdisciplinary Physics and Related Areas of Science and Technology | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/93/18002 | |
Published online | 31 January 2011 |
Waddling and somersault motion of an adsorbed polymer in external fields
Institut für Theoretische Physik II, Heinrich-Heine-Universität - Düsseldorf Universitätsstrasse 1, D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
a
guili@thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de
Received:
20
October
2010
Accepted:
22
December
2010
The dynamics of an adsorbed polymer chain along the substrate is studied using Brownian dynamics computer simulations of a bead-spring model. The polymer is end-functionalized and exposed both to a linear shear flow and an external field oscillatory in time which couples oppositely to the end beads and acts normal to the substrate. Different propagation modes are identified including a waddling-like and somersault-like polymer motion.
PACS: 83.10.Mj – Molecular dynamics, Brownian dynamics / 83.50.Ax – Steady shear flows, viscometric flow / 82.35.Gh – Polymers on surfaces; adhesion
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