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arxiv: cond-mat/0607062 · v1 · submitted 2006-07-03 · ❄️ cond-mat.soft · cond-mat.mtrl-sci

Roughening, deroughening, and nonuniversal scaling of the interface width in electrophoretic deposition of polymer chains

classification ❄️ cond-mat.soft cond-mat.mtrl-sci
keywords interfacealphaexponentgrowthwidthbeta1chainsdeposition
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Growth and roughness of the interface of deposited polymer chains driven by a field onto an impenetrable adsorbing surface are studied by computer simulations in (2+1) dimensions. The evolution of the interface width W shows a crossover from short-time growth described by the exponent beta1 to a long-time growth with exponent beta2 (>beta1). The saturated width increases, i.e., the interface roughens, with the molecular weight Lc, but the roughness exponent alpha (from Ws~L^alpha) becomes negative in contrast to models for particle deposition; alpha depends on the chain length--a nonuniversal scaling with the substrate length L. Roughening and deroughening occur as the field E and the temperature T compete such that Ws=(A+BT)E^-1/2.

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