Adsorption of an Isolated Stiff Chain Polymer

Using the theories of the stiff chain polymer which have been worked out by Freed and Tagami, the configurational properties of an isolated stiff chain polymer near the adsorbing planar interface are investigated. Both theories give almost the same results, and the desorption-adsorption transition become more acute as the stiffness increases, as previously shown by Hoeve, DiMarzio and Peyser. However, the present theory is developped in terms of the bending force constant instead of a prefactor used by Hoeve, DiMarzio and Peyser.