Figure 1.

Brush-particle interaction energies, calculated from SCF theory for a 10% surface-density brush composed of chains of length n = 50, as a function of particle position and size. Flory interaction parameters for the brush-solvent (bo) and particle-solvent (po) are specified as χ_bo = χ_po = 0.4, for the particle-brush χ_bp = 0. Size of the cylindrical particle has been varied from R_p = L_p = 1 to R_p = L_p = 7, where R_p and L_p are the cylinder radius and length, respectively, and 1 by 1 indicated, for instance, a cylinder where R_p = L_p = 1.