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Force-induced desorption of self-avoiding walks on Sierpinski gasket fractals

Vidanovic, I.
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Arsenijevic, S.  
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Elezovic-Hadzic, S.
2011
The European Physical Journal B

In this work we investigate force-induced desorption of linear polymers in good solvents in non-homogeneous environment, by applying the model of self-avoiding walk on two- and three-dimensional fractal lattices, obtained as generalization of the Sierpinski gasket fractal. For each of these lattices one of its boundaries represents an adsorbing wall, whereas along one of the fractal edges, not lying in the adsorbing wall, an external force acts on the self-avoiding walk. The hierarchical nature of the lattices under study enables an exact real-space renormalization group treatment, which yields the phase diagram of polymer critical behavior. We show that for this model there is no low-temperature reentrance in the cases of two-dimensional lattices, whereas in all studied three-dimensional cases the force-temperature dependance is reentrant. We also find that in all cases the force-induced desorption transition is of first order.

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research article
DOI
10.1140/epjb/e2011-10906-7
Web of Science ID

WOS:000292040400005

Author(s)
Vidanovic, I.
Arsenijevic, S.  
Elezovic-Hadzic, S.
Date Issued

2011

Publisher

EDP Sciences, Springer

Published in
The European Physical Journal B
Volume

81

Start page

291

End page

302

Subjects

Finitely Ramified Fractals

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Polymer-Chain

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Crossover Exponent

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Renormalization-Group

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Attractive Surface

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Elongational Force

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Monte-Carlo

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Adsorption

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Lattices

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Family

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December 16, 2011
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