Polymer Adsorption on Curved Surfaces: Finite Chain Length Corrections

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The structural properties of polymers adsorbed onto a surface have been widely investigated using self-consistent mean-field theories. Recently, analytical mean-field theories have been applied to study polymer adsorption on curved surfaces but all in the context of the ground state dominance approximation in which the polymer chain length ( N ) is essentially infinite. Using an expression for the free energy by Semenov, we determine leading order (in 1/ N ) corrections due to the finiteness of the polymer chain length on surface tension, spontaneous curvature, and rigidity constants.