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polymer网络中的共溶质分配:柔性和体积转换的影响

Cosolute partitioning in polymer networks: Effects of flexibility and volume transitions

Won Kyu Kim, Arturo Moncho-Jorda, Rafael Roa, Matej Kanduc, Joachim Dzubiella

摘要:

我们研究了半柔性聚合物网络薄膜中共溶质粒子的分配,结合粗粒度(隐式溶剂)随机动力学模拟和平均场论。我们专注于广泛的溶剂质量和共溶质网络的相互作用,为选定的聚合物的灵活性。我们研究的系综(等温等压)允许网络进行从扩展到塌陷状态的体积转变,而共溶质可以分布在散装和网络,相应地。我们发现网络的平衡态和它们之间的转变的丰富拓扑结构,定性地取决于溶剂质量、聚合物柔性和共溶物-网络相互作用。特别是,我们发现了一种新的“共溶质诱导”的崩溃状态,强烈吸引的共溶质桥网络单体,尽管后者相互排斥。最后,作为溶剂质量和共溶质-网络相互作用的函数计算的共溶质的全局分区“平衡”,根据聚合物的灵活性表现出非常不同的拓扑结构。模拟结果得到了理论预测的支持与两个组件的平均场近似的亥姆霍兹自由能,考虑链弹性和粒子相互作用的维里膨胀。我们的研究结果有影响的运输过程和水凝胶膜的渗透性的解释,实现在过滤或大分子载体系统。

英文摘要:

We study the partitioning of cosolute particles in a thin film of a semi-flexible polymer network by a combination of coarse-grained (implicit-solvent) stochastic dynamics simulations and mean-field theory. We focus on a wide range of solvent qualities and cosolute-network interactions for selected polymer flexibilities. Our investigated ensemble (isothermal-isobaric) allows the network to undergo a volume transition from extended to collapsed state while the cosolutes can distribute in bulk and network, correspondingly. We find a rich topology of equilibrium states of the network and transitions between them, qualitatively depending on solvent quality, polymer flexibility, and cosolute-network interactions. In particular, we find a novel `cosolute-induced' collapsed state, where strongly attractive cosolutes bridge network monomers albeit the latter interact mutually repulsive. Finally, the cosolutes' global partitioning `landscape', computed as a function of solvent quality and cosolute-network interactions, exhibits very different topologies depending on polymer flexibility. The simulation results are supported by theoretical predictions obtained with a two-component mean-field approximation for the Helmholtz free energy that considers the chain elasticity and the particle interactions in terms of a virial expansion. Our findings have implications on the interpretation of transport processes and permeability in hydrogel films, as realized in filtration or macromolecular carrier systems.

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