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CPP: Fachverband Chemische Physik und Polymerphysik

CPP 17: Poster 2

CPP 17.35: Poster

Tuesday, September 6, 2022, 11:00–13:00, P2

Polydisperse curved polymer brushes — •Marios Giannakou and Friederike Schmid — University of Mainz

In the past, polymer brushes have been investigated in the monodisperse limit or in flat geometries. These circumstances however aren*t as experimentally relevant, as monodisperse brushes are difficult to construct and brushes are found in curved geometries most of the times. Here, we attempt to resolve this issue by extending the already established mean-field theory describing polymer brushes developed by Cates et.al.. We develop a numerical method that allows us to investigate cylindrical and spherical geometries for arbitrary polydispersities. We then explore the uniform, Schulz-Zimm and monodisperse polymer distributions, and comment on the results.