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Monte carlo lattice models for adsorbed polymer conformation
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Good, B. S. |
| Copyright Year | 1985 |
| Description | The adhesion between a polymer film and a metal surface is of great technological interest. However, the prediction of adhesion and wear properties of polymer coated metals is quite difficult because a fundamental understanding of the polymer surface interaction does not yet exist. A computer model for the conformation of a polymer molecule adsorbed on a surface is discussed. The chain conformation is assumed to be described by a partially directed random walk on a three dimensional simple cubic lattice. An attractive surface potential is incorporated into the model through the use of a random walk step probability distribution that is anisotropic in the direction normal to the attractive surface. The effects of variations in potential characteristics are qualitatively included by varying both the degree of anisotropy of the step distribution and the range of the anisotropy. Polymer conformation is characterized by the average end to end distance, average radius of gyration, and average number of chain segments adsorbed on the surface. |
| File Size | 758996 |
| Page Count | 16 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19850016650 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t9v16x76v |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1985-05-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Solid-state Physics Crystal Lattices Friction Anisotropy Metals Wear Random Walk Surface Properties Computerized Simulation Probability Distribution Functions Adhesion Monte Carlo Method Polymeric Films Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports ServerĀ (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |