HA Model

One of the possible extensions of the HP model is the HA side chain model introduced in [212]. This is a more realistic coarse-grained model of amphiphilic polymers where the dualistic character of each monomeric unit is explicitly represented. 

As we will see in Sect. 3.4, such a relatively trivial modification of the standard HP model can lead to some nontrivial consequences when studying the collapse for the single-chain amphiphilic polymers and their aggregation in solution. 

There are many further issues that can be addressed by the model of the kind described here. Clearly, the HA model is amenable to a number of generalizations that allow one to study more sophisticated features of amphiphilic copolymers, including, for instance, backbone stiffness, orientational degrees of freedom, or additional structural constraints such as the saturation of monomer-monomer interactions [98], which are crucial, e.g., for the folding of RNA. Also, it is easy to introduce dipole moments for side H - P bonds and specific directional interactions (like hydrogen bonds) for some of the chain units. These additional factors can result in the formation of intramolecular secondary structures and lead to an increase in the stability of globules formed by such polymers. 

In the literature, there are several other coarse-grained polymer models in which spherical monomers are replaced by asymmetric objects. Generally, this gets a host of qualitatively new structures, e.g., liquid crystalline phases of helical secondary structures [99]. In those models, including that 

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This work is currently supported by NSF grant DMR 9313371 and by the Materials Science Center at Cornell University under NSF Grant DMR 9121654. We are particularly grateful to the staff of the Cornell Nanofabrication Facility for their assistance in creating the periodic starting stractures. The LEEM experiments on Si were carried out in collaboration with Ruud Tromp and Marion Mankos at IBM, Yorktown Heights, NY. Norm Bartelt of Sandia Labs, Livermore, CA has modeled the kinetics of the island and hole decay on the 2-D gratings. 

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Generally speaking, the reason for this behavior is simple. It is known that low-molecular-weight surfactants dramatically increase the stability of polymers and are widely used to prevent aggregation in polymer solutions. In the HA model, surfactants , i.e., amphiphilic A groups, are incorporated into the polymer chain, thus ensuring the stabilizing effect. From the tempera-... 

Fig. 2 Schematic representation of a the HP model and b the dumbbell HA model of an amphiphilic copolymer. P-units are hydrophilic (polar), H-units are hydrophobic, and A-units are amphiphilic. (Adapted from Ref. [25])...

Some attention should be also paid to the fact that some copolymers with special sequence distribution do not assume cylindrical shape within the HA model. For example, this is the case for protein-like sequences. Protein-like sequences correspond to a copolymer which forms globules with a hydrophobic core and a hydrophilic shell showing no tendency to aggregation. Proteinlike copolymers have been previously studied within the HP model [32-34], Application of the more realistic HA model showed that the globules formed by protein-like copolymers under worsening solvent quality assume conventional spherical shape and show no tendency to aggregate [23]. The stability for HA model protein-like copolymers is much higher than for those within the HP model. 

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