Morphology Modulation of Multicomponent Polymer Brushes in Selective Solvent by Patterned Surfaces
Morphology Modulation of Multicomponent Polymer Brushes in Selective Solvent by Patterned Surfaces
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DOI:
10.1021/ma502256p
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发表时间:
2015-01-13
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影响因子:
5.5
通讯作者:
Mueller, M.
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作者:
Leonforte, F.;Mueller, M.
The response of adaptive multicomponent polymer brushes to chemically patterned top surfaces as a function of the solvent quality and grafting density of the brushes and for applied patterns is studied by molecular dynamics simulations of a coarse-grained implicit-solvent model with soft, nonbonded interactions. The model is developed in order to address experimentally relevant, large invariant degrees of polymerization, and nonbonded interactions are expressed via a third-order (virial) expansion of the equation of state. The choice of interaction parameters mimics PAA-b-PS diblock copolymer brushes and PAA/PS mixed brushes. The role of the geometry and scale of the surface pattern is explored and related to the response of the spontaneously assembled morphologies of the unconfined brushes.