Polymer Brushes in a Poor Solvent
- 1 March 1995
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Europhysics Letters
- Vol. 29 (7), 531-536
- https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/29/7/004
Abstract
The structure of an end-grafted polymer layer immersed in poor solvent is investigated through Monte Carlo simulation based on Edward's Hamiltonian. When the solvent quality becomes sufficiently poor, lateral inhomogeneities are observed to develop in the monomer density in the direction parallel to the grafting plane. A micro-phase-separated conformation is observed at long times. The length scale characteristic of the micro-phase structure is found to be consistent with a two-dimensional random walk. The simulation gives results consistent with the stability line predicted by Yeung, Balazs and Jasnow (Macromolecules, 26 (1993) 1914).Keywords
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