2003/06/30 by Rene Messina, René Messina
Chemistry · Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Electrostatics and Colloid Interactions #Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies #Polymer Surface Interaction Studies #cond-mat.soft #cond-mat.stat-mech
paper · pdf · doi:10.1063/1.1609193
published as J. Chem. Phys., VOL. 119, pp. 8133-8139 (2003). · 18 pages - 7 (main) EPS figs - revtex4 - to appear in J. Chem. Phys
arxiv created 2003/07/22 · openalex publication_date 2003/10/15 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The adsorption of highly charged flexible polycations and polyanions on a charged cylindrical substrate is investigated by means of Monte Carlo simulations. A detailed structural study, including monomer and fluid charge distributions, is provided. The influence of a short-range attraction between the polycation and negatively charged substrate is also considered. We demonstrate that the building up of multilayer structures is highly prohibited mainly due to the high entropy penalty stemming from the low dimensionality of the substrate at strong curvature.