Thermodynamics and partitioning of homopolymers into a slit-A grand canonical Monte Carlo simulation study

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The grand canonical Monte Carlo (GCMC) method was applied to study the equilibrium between bulk and a confined polymer solution using chemical potentials of the chain. The bulk-pore partition coefficient obtained in the GCMC method was compared with that from the canonical ensemble simulation with a twin box. The chemical potential specified in GCMC contained the translational entropy term. The partitioning of an athermal homopolymer solution into a slit as a function of concentrations was reanalyzed with the scaling theory.

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Journal of Chemical Physics

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