Non-equilibrium in adsorbed polymer layers

B O'Shaughnessy, D Vavylonis - Journal of physics: condensed …, 2004 - iopscience.iop.org
High molecular weight polymer solutions have a powerful tendency to deposit adsorbed
layers when exposed to even mildly attractive surfaces. The equilibrium properties of these …

Irreversibility and polymer adsorption

B O'Shaughnessy, D Vavylonis - Physical review letters, 2003 - APS
Physisorption or chemisorption from dilute polymer solutions often entails irreversible
polymer-surface bonding. We present a theory of the resultant nonequilibrium layers. While …

Scaling description of polymer interfaces: Flat layers

M Aubouy, O Guiselin, E Raphael - Macromolecules, 1996 - ACS Publications
We present a new scaling approach to describe an arbitrarily dense polymer interface (layer
made of overlapping polymer chains). Our analysis is based on a description of the layer in …

Structure of adsorbed polymer layers: loops and tails

AN Semenov, JF Joanny - Europhysics Letters, 1995 - iopscience.iop.org
The structure of an adsorbed polymer layer in equilibrium with a dilute good solvent is
considered theoretically. It is shown that under saturation conditions the tails of the polymer …

Characterization of adsorbed polymer layers: preparation, determination of the adsorbed amount and investigation of the kinetics of irreversible adsorption

D Nieto Simavilla, A Panagopoulou… - Macromolecular …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Irreversibly adsorbed polymer layers represent an intriguing new class of materials with
unexpected properties, strongly deviating from what observed in unbounded polymer melts …

Irreversible adsorption of polymer melts and nanoconfinement effects

S Napolitano - Soft Matter, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
For almost a decade, growing experimental evidence has revealed a strong correlation
between the properties of nanoconfined polymers and the number of chains irreversibly …

Properties of polymer layers adsorbed on surfaces under nonequilibrium conditions

G Rossi, PA Pincus - Macromolecules, 1989 - ACS Publications
The properties of polymer coated surfaces which are incompletely saturated are studied
using both mean field theory and the scaling theory of polymer adsorption from a semidilute …

Irreversible adsorption from dilute polymer solutions

B O'Shaughnessy, D Vavylonis - The European Physical Journal E, 2003 - Springer
We study irreversible polymer adsorption from dilute solutions theoretically. Universal
features of the resultant non-equilibrium layers are predicted. Two broad cases are …

Scaling theory of polymer adsorption

PG De Gennes - Journal de physique, 1976 - jphys.journaldephysique.org
We discuss the equilibrium properties of flexible chains adsorbed on a flat surface,
assuming that a) adsorption is weak, resulting in large thicknesses D for the adsorption …

Effects of a “bound” substrate layer on the dynamics of supported polymer films

W Zhang, JF Douglas, FW Starr - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
It is widely appreciated that an attractive polymer-substrate interaction can slow relaxation in
thin supported polymer films and polymer nanocomposites. Recent measurements and …