Single polymer dynamics in an elongational flow

Science

Volumn 276, Issue 5321, 1997, Pages 2016-2021

  Perkins, Thomas T ^a   Smith, Douglas E ^a   Chu, Steven ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFORMATIONS; DNA; ELASTICITY; FLOW OF FLUIDS; MOLECULES; POLYMERS; PROBABILITY; STRAIN RATE;

ELONGATIONAL FLOW; SINGLE POLYMER;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

POLYMER;

ARTICLE; FLOW; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL; DNA, VIRAL; ENTROPY; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENT DYES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; STRESS, MECHANICAL; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 1842368477     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.276.5321.2016     Document Type: Article

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59. We thank G. Fuller, D. Hoagland, R. Larson, R. Pecora, and B. Zimm for helpful discussions and J. Shott for generous aid in lithographic design. Supported in part by grants from the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, NSF, and the Human Frontiers Foundation and by an endowment established by Theodore and Frances Geballe. We acknowledge the generous assistance of J. Spudich, including support through NIH grant GM33289 to J. Spudich. D.E.S. was supported by a fellowship from the Program in Mathematics and Molecular Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, through NSF grant DMS 9406348. S.C. was supported in part by a Guggenheim fellowship during the course of this work.