Computer study of stimuli-responsive polyelectrolyte micelles in aqueous media. Comparison of Monte Carlo and self-consistent field approaches

Abstract

The behavior of polyelectrolyte micelles with kinetically frozen hydrophobic cores in aqueous solutions was studied by Monte Carlo simulations and self-consistent field calculations.

Keywords

• chain conformations
• Monte Carlo simulations
• polymeric micelles
• self-consistent field calculations
• block-copolymer micelles
• diblock copolymers
• mean-field
• light-scattering
• polymer brushes
• adsorption
• surfaces
• shells