Aleks Owczarek - The University of Melbourne
A directed walk model of a long chain polymer in a slit with attractive walls
We present the exact solutions of various directed walkmodels of polymers confined to a slit and interacting with the wallsof the slit via an attractive potential. Apart from the generalinterest in the effect of geometrical confinement this can be viewedas a two-dimensional model of steric stabilization and sensitizedflocculation of colloidal dispersions.