Highly stretched single polymers: Atomic-force-microscope experiments versus ab-initio theory

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

  Hugel, Thorsten ^a,b   Rief, Matthias ^a,c   Seitz, Markus ^a   Gaub, Hermann E ^a   Netz, Roland R ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREELY-ROTATING-CHAIN (FRC); PEPTIDES; POLYVINYLAMINES; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

AMINES; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CONFORMATIONS; DNA; MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY; PH EFFECTS; QUANTUM THEORY;

POLYMERS;

DNA; PEPTIDE; POLY(VINYLAMINE); POLYMER; POLYVINYL DERIVATIVE;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; ELASTICITY; MECHANICAL STRESS; PROCEDURES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA; ELASTICITY; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; PEPTIDES; POLYMERS; POLYVINYLS; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 18044390503     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.048301     Document Type: Article

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