Properties of polyelectrolyte chains from analysis of angular correlation functions

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 117, Issue 19, 2002, Pages 8973-8982

  Cannavacciuolo, Luigi ^a   Pedersen, Jan Skov ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUNCTIONS; IONIC STRENGTH; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ANGULAR CORRELATION FUNCTION; ELECTROSTATIC INTERACTIONS; PERSISTENCE LENGTH; RADIUS OF GYRATION; REPULSION FORCES; TAYLOR EXPANSIONS; TAYLOR SERIES; VOLUME EFFECTS; WORMLIKE CHAINS; WORMLIKE MICELLES;

POLYELECTROLYTES;

EID: 0037113228     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1513150     Document Type: Article

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