Statistics of tumbling of a single polymer molecule in shear flow

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Gerashchenko, Sergiy ^a   Steinberg, Victor ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; MOLECULES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SHEAR FLOW; STATISTICS; THERMAL NOISE;

POLYMER ORIENTATION ANGLES; POLYMER RELAXATION TIME; TUMBLING TIMES;

POLYMERS;

BIOPOLYMER; DNA;

CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION STUDY; MECHANICAL STRESS; MICROFLUIDICS; PROCEDURES; ROTATION; SHEAR STRENGTH; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIOPOLYMERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA; MICROFLUIDICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ROTATION; SHEAR STRENGTH; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 32644474588     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.038304     Document Type: Article

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