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Comb copolymer cylindrical brushes containing semiflexible side chains: a Monte Carlo study

✍ Scribed by Mika Saariaho; Andrei Subbotin; Olli Ikkala; Gerrit ten Brinke

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2000
Tongue: English
Weight: 94 KB
Volume: 21
Category: Article
ISSN: 1022-1336
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1521-3927(20000201)21:2<110::aid-marc110>3.0.co;2-p

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✦ Synopsis

Characteristic conformation of a comb copolymer cylindrical brush consisting of a flexible backbone of 300 beads (black) and 150 semiflexible side chains (white) of length M = 60. Intrinsic stiffness of the side chains is given by k side (s = 165 8)/ M L 0.48. Magnification shows the strongly fluctuating local backbone structure and illustrates the definition of the angle, h (s), between two chain segments separated by a distance s along the backbone