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Protein-like behavior of multiblock copolymer chains in a selective solvent by a variety of lattice and off-lattice Monte Carlo simulations
- Source :
- physica status solidi (b). 245:2524-2532
- Publication Year :
- 2008
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2008.
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Abstract
- We present both lattice and off-lattice Monte Carlo simulations for multiblock copolymer chains of two lengths, N = 64 and N=128, with microarchitectures (8-8)4 and (16-16) 4 , respectively. The simulations demonstrate that a variety of lattice and off-lattice Monte Carlo methods gives the same protein-like behavior, showing that the multiblock chains undergo a two-step transition, first from a swollen state to a secondary "pearl-necklace" state, and then to a tertiary super-globular state as the solvent quality decreases, that is upon cooling.
Details
- ISSN :
- 15213951 and 03701972
- Volume :
- 245
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- physica status solidi (b)
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........9462cc7a7cce53840bd14545389c7ee0
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1002/pssb.200880252