Brownian dynamics simulation of amphiphilic block copolymers with different tail lengths, comparison with theory and comicelles
The structural and dynamics properties of pure and mixed block copolymer showed similar dependence on the hydrophobic block length. The dependence of simulated equilibrium aggregation number is in good agreement with the theory for hydrophobic tail length. The power law dependency of CMC from simulation results is different from theoretical predictions. The linear relation of log (CMC) against hydrophobic block length was confirmed. The aggregate size distribution becomes narrower by the increase of hydrophobic block length.
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