Free energy and confinement force of macromolecules in a slit at full equilibrium with a bulk solution

Polymer

Volumn 44, Issue 13, 2003, Pages 3745-3752

  Bleha, Tomáš ^a   Cifra, Peter ^a  

^a POLYMER INSTITUTE   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Confined excluded volume chains; Depletion effect; Semidilute solutions

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREE ENERGY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SOLUTIONS; STABILIZATION;

CONFINEMENT FORCE;

MACROMOLECULES;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COLLOID; ENERGY; MACROMOLECULE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; THEORY;

EID: 0038699521     PISSN: 00323861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0032-3861(03)00290-8     Document Type: Article

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