# Solvent-Dependent Critical Properties of Polymer Adsorption

## TL;DR

This paper uses advanced simulations to analyze how solvent quality affects the critical behavior and phase diagram of adsorbing polymers, revealing the influence of solvent conditions from good to poor.

## Contribution

It provides a systematic analysis of solvent-dependent critical properties of polymer adsorption using finite-size scaling and correction-to-scaling techniques.

## Key findings

- Critical exponents vary with solvent quality.
- Phase diagram structure depends on solvent conditions.
- Compact polymer structures form under poor solvent conditions.

## Abstract

Advanced chain-growth computer simulation methodologies have been employed for a systematic statistical analysis of the critical behavior of a polymer adsorbing at a substrate. We use finitesize scaling techniques to investigate the solvent-quality dependence of critical exponents, critical temperature, and the structure of the phase diagram. Our study covers all solvent effects from the limit of super-self-avoiding walks, characterized by effective monomer-monomer repulsion, to poor solvent conditions that enable the formation of compact polymer structures. The results significantly benefit from taking into account corrections to scaling.