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Surface enrichment and interdiffusion in blends of semiflexible polymers of different stiffness

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SOFT MATTER
卷 18, 期 19, 页码 3781-3792

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ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d2sm00036a

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  1. German Research Foundation (DFG) [BI 314/24-2]
  2. COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology)

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This study investigates the behavior of two types of semiflexible polymers with the same chain length but different persistence lengths, confined between parallel repulsive walls. The formation of nematic layers near the walls is observed at specific concentrations. In the ordered phase, both self-diffusion and interdiffusion of chains are significantly slowed down, which has implications for the production of polymeric coatings.
A model for a mixture of two kinds of semiflexible polymers (A and B) with the same chain length (N-A = N-B = 32), but different persistence lengths, confined between parallel planar repulsive walls in a common good solvent is studied by molecular dynamics simulations. In the isotropic phase at low polymer concentrations, both polymers are repelled by the walls, and the system is anisotropic near the walls over a range controlled by the polymer linear dimensions. Close to the concentrations where in the bulk nematic order sets in, precursors of thick nematic layers at the walls are observed, strongly enriched by a stiffer component, which hence is depleted in the center of the slit pore. At larger concentrations, where in the bulk a uniformly mixed nematic phase occurs, the enrichment of B-chains at the walls is rather minor, extending over the scale of the transverse correlation length of concentration fluctuations, which is of the order of a few monomeric diameters only for the present model. In this ordered phase, both self-diffusion and interdiffusion of chains (in the direction perpendicular to the director) are found to be significantly slowed down in comparison to dilute solutions. Since equilibration times scale with the square of the slit thickness, incomplete equilibration is predicted when polymeric coatings on substrate containing polymers differing in stiffness are produced.

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