TY - JOUR
T1 - Adsorption-Desorption Kinetics of Soft Particles
AU - Osberg, Brendan
AU - Nuebler, Johannes
AU - Gerland, Ulrich
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 American Physical Society.
PY - 2015/8/18
Y1 - 2015/8/18
N2 - Adsorption-desorption processes are ubiquitous in physics, chemistry, and biology. Models usually assume hard particles, but within the realm of soft matter physics the adsorbing particles are compressible. A minimal 1D model reveals that softness fundamentally changes the kinetics: Below the desorption time scale, a logarithmic increase of the particle density replaces the usual Rényi jamming plateau, and the subsequent relaxation to equilibrium can be nonmonotonic and much faster than for hard particles. These effects will impact the kinetics of self-assembly and reaction-diffusion processes.
AB - Adsorption-desorption processes are ubiquitous in physics, chemistry, and biology. Models usually assume hard particles, but within the realm of soft matter physics the adsorbing particles are compressible. A minimal 1D model reveals that softness fundamentally changes the kinetics: Below the desorption time scale, a logarithmic increase of the particle density replaces the usual Rényi jamming plateau, and the subsequent relaxation to equilibrium can be nonmonotonic and much faster than for hard particles. These effects will impact the kinetics of self-assembly and reaction-diffusion processes.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.088301
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.088301
M3 - Article
C2 - 26340214
AN - SCOPUS:84940675916
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 115
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
IS - 8
M1 - 088301
ER -