Abstract
A coarse-grained model to describe the lateral structure of a one-component polymer brush is presented. In this model, a single polymer chain is described by just two coordinates, namely the position of the grafted monomer, and the monomer on the non-grafted end. Due to its simplicity, the lateral arrangement of large numbers of structural units, each unit containing hundreds of polymers, can be analyzed. We consider here the corresponding low-energy configurations. Provided the grafting density is large enough, the latter all feature hexagonal order, even when the grafted monomers are distributed randomly.
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