COIL GLOBULE TYPE TRANSITIONS IN POLYMERS .1. COLLAPSE OF LAYERS OF GRAFTED POLYMER-CHAINS
COIL GLOBULE TYPE TRANSITIONS IN POLYMERS .1. COLLAPSE OF LAYERS OF GRAFTED POLYMER-CHAINS
复制标题
DOI:
10.1021/ma00001a023
复制
发表时间:
1991-01-07
期刊:
影响因子:
5.5
通讯作者:
BIRSHTEIN, TM
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
ZHULINA, EB;BORISOV, OV;BIRSHTEIN, TM
The mean-field analytical theory describing the conformational transition related to the collapse of the layers of polymer chains grafted onto the impermeable surfaces of different morphologies (a planar surface, a sphere, and a cylinder) has been developed. The dependence of the character of this transition on the type of the surface morphology is analyzed. It is shown that in the case of a planar surface this transition is not a true thermodynamic phase transition. The structural rearrangement of the layers accompanying their collapse is investigated. The most precise analysis was carried out for the case of a planar layer. It is shown that in contrast to the blob picture the planar layer is inhomogeneous as a whole at any solvent strength. Analytical expressions describing the distribution of monomer units density and chain ends along the layer height at arbitrary solvent strength are obtained.