Substrate adhesion of a nongrafted flexible polymer in a cavity

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2006 Apr;73(4 Pt 1):041802. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.73.041802. Epub 2006 Apr 17.

Abstract

In a contact-density chain-growth study we investigate the solubility-temperature pseudophase diagram of a lattice polymer in a cavity with an attractive surface. In addition to the main phases of adsorbed and desorbed conformations we find numerous subphases of collapsed and expanded structures.