Abstract:Mixed brushes consisting of flexible and semiflexible
polymers
of the same chain length exhibit a height-switching phenomenon because
of rigidity-dependent critical adsorption [Yang et al. Macromolecules 2020, 53, 7369]. Semiflexible polymers stand higher at weak surface
attraction (high temperature), but they close to the attractive surface
at strong attraction (low temperature). In this work, the height-switching
dynamics of the mixed polymer brushes is studied by Metropolis Monte
Carlo simulation. The heigh… Show more
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