Free energy contact

It is now possible to classify the salt effects on the swelling curve. Till now four types of salt effects have been found and these are summarized in Fig. 28. These results suggest that two parameters, contact free energy and the S value in... 

These equations are the basis for relating the contact surface free energy to the gaseous environment. As shown in [21] the following relation between reduction potential and the relative surface contact free energy can be derived ... 

Specific-heat profiles as a function of temperature T and solubility parameter s of the 103-mer near three different substrates that are attractive for (a) all, (b) only hydrophobic, and (c) only polar monomers. White lines indicate the ridges of the profile. Gray lines mark the main "phase boundaries." The dashed black line represents the first-order-like binding/unbinding transition state, where the contact free energy possesses two minima (the adsorbed and the desorbed state). In the left panel typical conformations dominating the associated AC phases of the different systems are shown. After [303]. 

Contact-number map of all free-energy minima for the 103-mer and substrate equally attractive to all monomers. Full circles correspond to minima ofthe contact free energy in the parameter space 7 e [0,10],... 

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