Polymers undergoing inhomogeneous adsorption: Order parameters for a partially directed walk model.
We consider partially directed walk models of polymers undergoing inhomogeneous adsorption. The inhomogeneity can be in the polymer, in the surface, or in both. For the cases where the polymer is either a homopolymer or a strictly alternating copolymer and where the surface is either homogeneous or has stripes of width 1, we calculate detailed order parameters and show that these provide important information about the ways in which the polymer adsorbs.
Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3H6.
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Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3H6.
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