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Preparation and Friction Force Microscopy Measurements of Immiscible, Opposing Polymer Brushes
Published on: December 24, 2014
Solvation force induced by short range, exact dissipative particle dynamics effective surfaces on a simple fluid and
Armando Gama Goicochea1, Francisco Alarcón
1Centro de Investigación en Polímeros (Grupo COMEX) Marcos Achar Lobatón No. 2, Tepexpan, 55885 Acolman, Estado de México, Mexico. agama@cip.org
Abstract:
The thermodynamic properties of a simple fluid confined by effective wall forces are calculated using Monte Carlo simulations in the grand canonical ensemble. The solvation force produced by polymer brushes of two different lengths is obtained also. For the particular type of model interactions used, known as the dissipative particle dynamics method, we find that it is possible to obtain an exact, simple expression for the effective force induced by a planar wall composed of identical particles that interact with those in the fluid. We show that despite the short range of all forces in the model, the solvation force can be finite at relatively large distances and therefore does not depend only on the range of the interparticle or solvent-surface forces. As for the polymer brushes, we find that the shape of the solvation force profiles is in fair agreement with scaling and self-consistent field theories. The applications and possible extensions of this work are discussed.
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