External field-driven property localization in liquids of responsive macromolecules
Arturo Moncho-Jordá,
Sebastien Groh,
Joachim Dzubiella
Abstract:We explore theoretically the effects of external potentials on the spatial distribution of particle properties in a liquid of explicitly responsive macromolecules. In particular, we focus on the bistable particle size as a coarse-grained internal degree of freedom (DoF, or “property”), σ, that moves in a bimodal energy landscape, in order to model the response of a state-switching (big-to-small) macromolecular liquid to external stimuli. We employ a mean-field density functional theory (DFT) that provides the … Show more
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