Forces on an attractive surface generated from a thermoresponsive polymer gel
Interaction between polymers and soft-matter surfaces in the biological cell is a common yet incompletely understood phenomenon. This work investigates a generic situation where a thermoresponsive polymer gel is placed in the vicinity of an adsorbing surface, and starts contracting. The force is med...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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AIP Publishing LLC
2014-08-01
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| Series: | AIP Advances |
| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4894269 |