Coil-globule transition temperature enhancement in a polymer molecule adsorbed to a wall
- 21 June 1990
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics A: General Physics
- Vol. 23 (12) , 2701-2706
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/23/12/043
Abstract
The authors present novel real-space renormalization results for a lattice model of the collapse (coil-globule) transition of a polymer molecule adsorbing to a wall. These results support the conjecture that adsorption stabilises the collapsed phase by enhancing the collapse transition temperature. The analysis is developed, in both two and three space dimensions, for a suitably modified version of a recently proposed geometrical self-attracting self-avoiding walk model of polymer collapse.Keywords
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