Understanding nonequilibrium scaling laws governing collapse of a polymer

S Majumder, H Christiansen, W Janke - The European Physical Journal B, 2020 - Springer
Recent emerging interest in experiments of single-polymer dynamics urge computational
physicists to revive their understandings, particularly in the nonequilibrium context. Here we …

Kinetics of polymer collapse: Effect of temperature on cluster growth and aging

S Majumder, J Zierenberg, W Janke - Soft matter, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Using state of the art Monte Carlo simulations of a bead-spring model we investigate both
the equilibrium and the nonequilibrium behavior of the homopolymer collapse. The …

Swelling kinetics and electrical charge transport in PEDOT: PSS thin films exposed to water vapor

B Sarkar, M Jaiswal, DK Satapathy - Journal of Physics …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the swelling kinetics and evolution of the electrical charge transport in poly (3, 4-
ethylene dioxythiophene) polystyrene sulfonate (PEDOT: PSS) thin films subjected to water …

Thermodynamics of lattice heteropolymers

M Bachmann, W Janke - The Journal of chemical physics, 2004 - pubs.aip.org
We calculate thermodynamic quantities of hydrophobic-polar (HP) lattice proteins by means
of a multicanonical chain-growth algorithm that connects the new variants of the Pruned …

Swelling dynamics of ultrathin polymer films

A Singh, M Mukherjee - Macromolecules, 2003 - ACS Publications
Solvent uptake and swelling of ultrathin spin-coated polyacrylamide films in the presence of
saturated vapor of water at room temperature was studied using gravimetric and X-ray …

Effect of solvent− polymer interaction in swelling dynamics of ultrathin polyacrylamide films: a neutron and x-ray reflectivity study

M Mukherjee, A Singh, J Daillant, A Menelle… - …, 2007 - ACS Publications
The swelling dynamics of the ultrathin polyacrylamide (PAM) spin-coated films in saturated
vapor of D2O and H2O were studied using neutron and X-ray reflectivity. A uniform …

Coarsening and aging of lattice polymers: Influence of bond fluctuations

H Christiansen, S Majumder, W Janke - The Journal of Chemical …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
We present results for the nonequilibrium dynamics of collapse for a model flexible
homopolymer on simple cubic lattices with fixed and fluctuating bonds between the …

Power law in swelling of ultra-thin polymer films

M Mukherjee, MS Chebil, N Delorme, A Gibaud - Polymer, 2013 - Elsevier
Steady state and dynamic behaviour of swelling of spin coated polyacrylamide films have
been studied at room temperature in a precisely controlled environment of 12–99% relative …

Functional films of maleic anhydride copolymers under physiological conditions

T Pompe, L Renner, M Grimmer… - Macromolecular …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Reactivity and swelling of nanometer films of alternating maleic anhydride copolymers were
investigated in dependence on the kind of comonomer and molar mass of copolymer in …

Kinetic signature of cooperativity in the irreversible collapse of a polymer

VF Scolari, G Mercy, R Koszul, A Lesne… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
We investigate the kinetics of a polymer collapse due to the formation of irreversible cross-
links between its monomers. Using the contact probability P (s) as a scale-dependent order …