Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL-SPECIAL TOPICS, cilt.216, sa.1, ss.181-190, 2013 (SCI-Expanded)
We analyze the structural behavior of a single polymer chain inside an attractive sphere. Our model is composed of a coarse-grained polymer governed by Lennard-Jones interactions of the monomers and an attractive sphere potential which follows by integrating the monomer-monomer interaction over the (inner) surface of the sphere. By means of extensive multicanonical Monte Carlo simulations it is shown that the system exhibits a rich phase diagram in the adsorption strength-temperature (epsilon - T) plane ranging from highly ordered and compact to extended and random coil structures and from desorbed to partially or even completely adsorbed conformations. These findings are identified with different energetic and structural observables. The resulting phase diagram in the epsilon - T plane is compared with that for a polymer adsorbing to a plane, attractive substrate obtained previously by Moddel, Bachmann, and one of the authors.