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Adsorption Active Diblock Copolymers as Universal Agents for Unusual Barrier-Free Transitions in Stimuli-Responsive Brushes

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MACROMOLECULES
卷 54, 期 6, 页码 2592-2603

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AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.0c02095

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  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [21873010, NNIO-a 20-53-12020]
  2. Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR)
  3. Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
  4. DFG [Schm 985/13-2, SFB TRR 146]

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The study reconsiders a smart responsive brush design based on conformational transition in block copolymers, demonstrating robust features and a surprising universality in transition properties related to the adsorption state.
We reconsider a recently proposed design for smart responsive brushes, which is based on a conformational transition in very dilutely embedded block copolymers with a surface active block (Qi et al., Macromolecules 53, 5326, 2020). Under certain conditions, the transition acquires an unusual character: it remains very sharp, but the barrier separating the adsorbed and desorbed states disappears completely. We show that these features are very robust with respect to changing almost all system parameters: the lengths of the inert and active blocks of the minority chain, the brush length, its density, and its polydispersity. The only relevant condition is that the inert block of the minority chain is long enough to extend outside the brush density profile. We develop an analytical theory that predicts the relevant characteristics of the transition and verify it with Monte Carlo simulations. We also show that the surprising universality of the transition properties is rooted in an underlying connection to the force-induced desorption transition, which is known to combine the features of the first- and second-order transitions with a pretransition fluctuation growth accompanied by phase coexistence.

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