Polymer depletion interaction between two parallel repulsive walls

Authors

F. Schlesener
Andreas Hanke, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
R. Kimpel
S. Dietrich

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2001

Abstract

The depletion interaction between two parallel repulsive walls confining a dilute solution of long and flexible polymer chains is studied by field-theoretic methods. Special attention is paid to self-avoidance between chain monomers relevant for polymers in a good solvent. Our direct approach avoids the mapping of the actual polymer chains on effective hard or soft spheres. We compare our results with recent Monte Carlo simulations [A. Milchev and K. Binder, Eur. Phys. J. B 3, 477 (1998)] and with experimental results for the depletion interaction between a spherical colloidal particle and a planar wall in a dilute solution of nonionic polymers.

Comments

©2001 American Physical Society. Original published article available at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.63.041803

Recommended Citation

Schlesener, F., Andreas Hanke, R. Klimpel, and S. Dietrich. "Polymer depletion interaction between two parallel repulsive walls." Physical Review E 63, no. 4 (2001): 041803. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.63.041803

Publication Title

Physical Review E

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevE.63.041803