Conformational Behavior of Polyampholytes Grafted onto Spherical Particles

Abstract

We developed a method to investigate the conformational behavior of the spherical brushes using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. The brush consists of the spherical particle coated with polyampholyte chains. The effects of charge sequences on radial distribution function and monomer density for the polyampholyte brushes were investigated. We found that the brush was folded when the diblock polyampholyte chains grafted on spherical particles.