Exact results for the adsorption of a flexible self-avoiding polymer chain in two dimensions

MT Batchelor, CM Yung - Physical review letters, 1995 - APS
We derive the exact critical couplings (x*, ya*), where ya*/x*= 1+ 2= 1.533…, for the polymer
adsorption transition on the honeycomb lattice, along with the universal critical exponents …

Simulations of lattice animals and trees

HP Hsu, W Nadler, P Grassberger - Journal of Physics A …, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
The scaling behaviour of randomly branched polymers in a good solvent is studied in two to
nine dimensions, using as microscopic models lattice animals and lattice trees on simple …

The statistical mechanics of random copolymers

CE Soteros, SG Whittington - Journal of Physics A: Mathematical …, 2004 - iopscience.iop.org
Random copolymers are polymers with two or more types of monomer where the monomer
sequence is determined by some random process. Once determined, the sequence is fixed …

Macroscopic Nematic Orientation Dictated by an Orientationally Frustrated Random-Field Surface: Equilibrium Structure and Kinetics

Z Chen, S Aya - Langmuir, 2023 - ACS Publications
Liquid crystals subjected to frustrated surfaces with mixed anchoring conditions demonstrate
a rich variety of orientational patterns. Particularly, it would trigger either continuous or …

Crystallization of a polymer on a surface

JPK Doye, D Frenkel - The Journal of chemical physics, 1998 - pubs.aip.org
We have studied the structure and free energy landscape of a semiflexible lattice polymer in
the presence of the surface of a polymer crystal. At low temperatures coexistence of two …

Force-induced desorption of a linear polymer chain adsorbed on an attractive surface

PK Mishra, S Kumar, Y Singh - Europhysics Letters, 2004 - iopscience.iop.org
We consider a model of self-avoiding walk on a lattice with on-site repulsion and an
attraction for every vertex of the walk visited on the surface to study force-induced desorption …

A simple and exactly solvable model for a semiflexible polymer chain interacting with a surface

PK Mishra, S Kumar, Y Singh - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its …, 2003 - Elsevier
We use the lattice model of directed walks to investigate the conformational as well as the
adsorption properties of a semiflexible homopolymer chain immersed in a good solvent in …

Adsorption of flexible polymer chains on a surface: Effects of different solvent conditions

PHL Martins, JA Plascak, M Bachmann - The Journal of chemical …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Polymer chains undergoing a continuous adsorption-desorption transition are studied
through extensive computer simulations. A three-dimensional self-avoiding walk lattice …

The critical adsorption point of self-avoiding walks: A finite-size scaling approach

MB Luo - The Journal of chemical physics, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
The critical adsorption of self-avoiding polymer chain in a simple cubic lattice onto a flat
surface is studied with Monte Carlo simulations. The dependence of number of surface …

Adsorption and collapse of self-avoiding walks in three dimensions: A Monte Carlo study

T Vrbová, SG Whittington - Journal of Physics A: Mathematical …, 1998 - iopscience.iop.org
We consider self-avoiding walks on the simple cubic lattice, with a unit degree vertex at the
origin and confined to the half-space. In addition the walks interact with the plane z= 0 and …