Attractive and repulsive polymer-mediated forces between scale-free surfaces
We consider forces acting on objects immersed in, or attached to, long fluctuating polymers. The confinement of the polymer by the obstacles results in polymer-mediated forces that can be repulsive (due to loss of entropy) or attractive (if some or all surfaces are covered by adsorbing layers). The...
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American Physical Society
2018
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/114530 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1112-5912 |