Abstract
Certain water soluble polymers may have a repulsive two-body interaction, but an attractiven-body interaction induced by certain “clustering” effects. In the bulk this may lead to a “\(\bar \theta \) point” in the phase diagram. Here, with polymer brushes, we construct the theoretical density profiles, using a local mean-field approximation. The brush often shows two layers (one dense near the wall, and one dilute), but the concentrations in both layers depend on the distance to the wall. The location of the interlayer boundary can be derived from a Maxwell construction.
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Wagner, M., Brochard-Wyart, F., Hervet, H. et al. Colloid & Polymer Science. Colloid Polym Sci 271, 621–628 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00652824
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00652824