Abstract
The adsorption of negatively charged polyelectrolyte and a polyampholyte to patterned surfaces was investigated using off-lattice Monte Carlo simulations. The surface was decorated by stripe and checkerboard patterns of mixed charges. It was shown that the chain entropy of a flexible polymer disrupts and prevents full pattern recognition between the charge sequence on the polymer and surface pattern. The average adsorption energy and radii of gyration of the adsorbed polymer depends on the size of the surface pattern and the correlation of the polymer charge density.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 5354-5360 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Journal of Chemical Physics |
| Volume | 117 |
| Issue number | 11 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 15 Sep 2002 |
| Externally published | Yes |