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Eli Hershkovits1, Allen Tannenbaum, Rina Tannenbaum
1School of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332.
Abstract:
In this article, we have developed a simple model that describes the adsorption of polymer chains from a solution having a good solvent onto a reactive surface of varying curvatures. In order to evaluate the impact of particle size on the adsorption process, we have probed the adsorption of poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) on aluminum oxide (Al2O3) surfaces belonging to particles of different sizes. The basic approach assumed that the details of the chemisorption mechanism of PMMA on aluminum oxide surfaces are independent of surface curvature. The combination of the experimental results with the theoretical approach that we have developed show the existence of three different regimes of adsorption of polymer chains onto the surfaces of metal nanoparticles.
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