Influence of long-range correlated surface and near the surface disorder on the process of adsorption of long-flexible polymer chains

Abstract

The influence of long-range correlated surface and decaying near surface disorder with quenched defects is studied. We consider a correlation function for the defects of the form $\frac{e^{-z/\xi }}{r^a}$, where $a<d-1$ and $z$ being the coordinate in the direction perpendicular to the surface and $r$ denotes the distance parallel to the surface. We investigate the process of adsorption of long-flexible polymer chains with excluded volume interactions on a "marginal" and attractive wall in the framework of renormalization group field theoretical approach up to first order of perturbation theory in a double ($\epsilon$,$\delta$)- expansion ($\epsilon =4-d$, $\delta =3-a$) for the semi-infinite $|\varphi {|}^4$ $O(m,n)$ model with the above mentioned type of surface and near the surface disorder in the limit $m,n\to 0$. In particular we study two limiting cases. First, we investigate the scenario where the chain's extension it much larger then $\xi$. Second, we consider the case where the chain's extension is of the order of $\xi$. For both cases we obtained series for bulk and the whole set of surface critical exponents, characterizing the process of adsorption of long-flexible polymer chains at the surface. The polymer linear dimensions parallel and perpendicular to the surface and the corresponding partition functions as well as the behavior of monomer density profiles and the fraction of adsorbed monomers at the surface and in the volume are studied.

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