title: Structural phases of adsorption for flexible polymers on nanocylinder surfaces.
abstract: By means of generalized-ensemble Monte Carlo simulations, we investigate the thermodynamic behavior of a flexible, elastic polymer model in the presence of an attractive nanocylinder. We systematically identify the structural phases that are formed by competing monomer-monomer and monomer-substrate interactions. The influence of the relative surface attraction strength on the structural phases in the hyperphase diagram, parameterized by cylinder radius and temperature, is discussed as well. In the limiting case of the infinitely large cylinder radius, our results coincide with previous outcomes of studies of polymer adsorption on planar substrates.
authors.affiliation: Soft Matter Systems Research Group, Center for Simulational Physics, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA. bachmann@smsyslab.org and Institut für Theoretische Physik and Centre for Theoretical Sciences (NTZ), Universität Leipzig, Postfach 100 920, D-04009 Leipzig, Germany. gross@itp.uni-leipzig.de.
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gross
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Stetson University, DeLand, FL 32723, USA and Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA. tvogel@lanl.gov.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Vogel
authors.affiliation: Soft Matter Systems Research Group, Center for Simulational Physics, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA. bachmann@smsyslab.org and Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, 78060-900 Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bachmann