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The effect of surface adsorption on tertiary structure formation in helical polymers
Matthew J Williams1, Michael Bachmann2
1Institute of Engineering, Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky 42071, USA.
Abstract:
The formation of tertiary structures made up of helical polymer segments is influenced by the introduction of an attractive substrate onto which the polymer can adsorb. We perform replica-exchange Monte Carlo simulations to study the formation of helical structures in the vicinity of an attractive generic substrate by means of a coarse-grained hybrid model and compare the structural phase space for both adsorbed and free helical polymers. We introduce suitable structural order parameters to understand the features of distinct structural phases. Hyperphase diagrams, parameterized by the torsional energy scale and temperature, enable the investigation of structural properties of entire classes of helical polymers.
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