Abstract
A sequence design scheme to generate special primary structures in copolymers is proposed. In this scheme the type which is attributed to a given monomeric unit ( or ) depends on the spatial position of this unit in some “parent” homopolymer chain conformation. We consider two possible parent conformations: globular (giving rise to “proteinlike copolymers”) and adsorbed (generating “adsorption-tuned copolymers”). By means of the Monte Carlo simulations it is shown that the copolymers with specially generated sequences have the physical properties different from those for random copolymers, i.e., they “inherit” some features of the parent conformation.
- Received 3 June 1998
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.3456
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