Sprecher
Marios Giannakou
(University of Mainz)
Beschreibung
We investigate the effect of polydispersity on the properties of curved linear
brushes in good solvent and for molten brushes. To this end, we extend the strong stretching
theory for polydisperse brushes to curved geometries and investigate the polymer chain end profiles,
bending moduli and other properties for experimentally relevant polymer chain length distributions
of the Schulz-Zimm type. We also investigate the properties of End Exclusion Zones (EEZ) that may
appear in convex geometries under certain conditions, and show that their position in the brush can
be engineered by careful selection of the polymer length distribution. Lastly, we propose a method
to engineer chain end profiles by engineering the polymer length distribution.
Hauptautor
Marios Giannakou
(University of Mainz)
Co-Autoren
Prof.
Oleg Borisov
(Institut des Sciences Analytiques et de Physico-Chimie pour l’Environnement et les Materiaux)
Prof.
Friederike Schmid
(University of Mainz)