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Article Dans Une Revue European Physical Journal E: Soft matter and biological physics Année : 2001

Inwardly curved polymer brushes : Concave is not like Convex

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Inwardly curved polymer brushes are present in cylindrical and spherical micelles or in membranes tubes and vesicles decorated with anchored polymers, and influence their stability. We consider such polymer brushes in good solvent and show that previous works, based on a self-similar concentric structure of the brush, are physically inconsistent. We use scaling laws to derive very simply the leading term of the free energy in the high curvature limit, where the osmotic pressure is the relevant physical ingredient. We also derive the complete conformation at all curvatures using a self-consistent field approach. The free energy is computed therefrom using a local scaling description.

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hal-00123861 , version 1 (11-01-2007)

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Manoel Manghi, Miguel Aubouy, Cyprien Gay, Christian Ligoure. Inwardly curved polymer brushes : Concave is not like Convex. European Physical Journal E: Soft matter and biological physics, 2001, 5, pp.519-530. ⟨10.1007/s101890170035⟩. ⟨hal-00123861⟩
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