Understanding the interfacial structure of multi-site polymer adsorption is critical for the rational design of functional nanomaterials. However, the distribution of chains attached via one, two, or more anchor points has remained inaccessible to experiments and conventional simulations. Experiments typically measure...
Intrinsically disordered molecular systems, such as random copolymers and intrinsically disordered proteins, exhibit scale-invariant, power-law cluster distributions that cannot be explained by conventional mean-field theories. A fundamental challenge is to understand how sequence randomness, which cannot be averaged...
Chuan Tang, Yi-Fan Huang, Chun-Lai Ren et al.· Journal of the American Chem...· 0 citations
We develop an active self-consistent field theory (ASCFT) for studying the steady-state behavior of active Ornstein--Uhlenbeck polymers. Starting from the stochastic equations of motion under the unified colored noise approximation, we derive an effective Hamiltonian that extends the classical polymer field theory to n...