Structural Formation of Dendritic Polymer Brushes: Analysis Using an Explicit Solvent Model

Abstract

Abstract Dendritic brushes, which provide higher stability against the aggregation of colloidal suspensions, were investigated using multicolor domain decomposition Monte Carlo simulations. Solvent molecules were explicitly considered, and the profiles of the monomer density and perimeter density distributions were calculated. The results show that the power-law dependence on grafting density depends weakly on the spacer length, the distance between neighboring branch points in dendrons. No apparent evidence was found for backfolding in the dendritic polymer brushes.