High Antifouling Performance of Weakly Hydrophilic Polymer Brushes: A Molecular Dynamics Study
Takuma Yagasaki,
Nobuyuki Matubayasi
Abstract:The antifouling performance of polymer brushes usually improves with increasing hydrophilicity of the grafted polymer. However, in some cases, less hydrophilic polymers show comparable or better antifouling performance than do more hydrophilic polymers. We investigate the mechanism of this anomalous behavior using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of coarse−grained (CG) models of weakly and strongly hydrophilic polymers. The antifouling performance is evaluated from the potential of mean force of a model pro… Show more
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