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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Main Authors: Zoran Konkoli, Ilona Wegrzyn, Aldo Jesorka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIP Publishing LLC 2014-08-01
Series:AIP Advances
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4894269

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