SELF-AVOIDING WALKS, POLYMER ADSORPTION AND ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY

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• Stu Whittington (Toronto)
• Thursday 29 November 2018, 13:45-15:00
• Theory Library.

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Polymers in dilute solution can adsorb at a surface and the adsorbed polymer can be pulled off the surface by atomic force microscopy. The standard model for polymer ad- sorption is a self-avoiding walk on a lattice, interacting with an impenetrable surface, and this model can be extended to include a force. The background to this problem will be discussed and some recent rigorous results on the model will be described.

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