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arxiv: cond-mat/0205013 · v1 · submitted 2002-05-01 · ❄️ cond-mat.stat-mech

Does a surface attached globule phase exist ?

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keywords phasesurfaceattachedchainglobuletransitionadditionadsorbed
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A long flexible neutral polymer chain immersed in a poor solvent and interacting with an impenetrable attractive surface exhibits a phase known as surface attached globule ({\bf SAG}) in addition to other adsorbed and desorbed phases. In the thermodynamic limit, the {\bf SAG} phase has the same free energy per monomer as the globular phase, and the transition between them is a surface transition. We have investigated the phase diagrams of such a chain in both two- and three- dimensions and calculated the distribution of monomers in different domains of the phase diagram.

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