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Stretching Polymer Brushes In Poor Solvents

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Macromolecules, 24 (19): 5393--5397 (1991)

Abstract

A scaling analysis of the stretching of collapsed polymer brushes is presented. The stretching is associated with a first-order phase transition involving a coexistence of a collapsed layer and stretched chain segments. The coexistence regime is characterized by a f approximately L0 force law. Linear force laws are found for weaker as well as for stronger deformations.

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