A Monte Carlo study of the coil-to-globule transition of model polymer chains near an attractive surface

Journal of Polymer Science, Part B: Polymer Physics

Volumn 47, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 2462-2476

  Rissanou, Anastassia N ^a   Anastasiadis, Spiros H ^a,b   Bitsanis, Ioannis A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Adsorption; Adsorption desorption transition; Attractive surfaces; Chain conformation; Coil to globule transition; Conformational analysis; Monte carlo simulation

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION DESORPTION; ATTRACTIVE SURFACES; CHAIN CONFORMATIONS; COIL-TO-GLOBULE TRANSITION; CONFORMATIONAL ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION;

ADSORPTION; CONFORMATIONS; DESORPTION; DISSOLUTION; POLYMERS; SIMULATORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 72149091155     PISSN: 08876266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/polb.21869     Document Type: Article

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