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Self-assembly of polymer layers with mobile grafting points: Computer simulation

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The Monte Carlo method is used to study macromolecule layers with mobile grafting points during deterioration in the solvent quality. If the chains are rigidly grafted onto the surface, the micelle core is bonded to the surface through chain fragments that are strongly extended along the surface, but if the points are fairly mobile, the micelles are dense aggregates maximally segregated from the surface. In addition, an increase in the mobility of the chains leads to increase in the mean aggregation number of the micelles, its dispersion, and height of the aggregate.

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  1. Faculty of Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow, 119991, Russia

    M. K. Glagolev & A. R. Khokhlov

  2. Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Vavilova 28, Moscow, 119991, Russia

    M. K. Glagolev, V. V. Vasilevskaya & A. R. Khokhlov

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Original Russian Text © M.K. Glagolev, V.V. Vasilevskaya, A.R. Khokhlov, 2012, published in Vysokomolekulyarnye Soedineniya, Ser. A, 2012, Vol. 54, No. 9, pp. 1447–1457.

This work was supported by the Program of Basic Research of the State Academies of Science for 2008–2012 and the project of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.

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Glagolev, M.K., Vasilevskaya, V.V. & Khokhlov, A.R. Self-assembly of polymer layers with mobile grafting points: Computer simulation. Polym. Sci. Ser. A 54, 767–777 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0965545X12090027

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