How long does it take to pull an ideal polymer into a small hole?

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 22, 2006, Pages

  Grosberg, A Yu ^a   Nechaev, S ^a   Tamm, M ^a   Vasilyev, O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MONOMERS;

LINEAR BRANCHED POLYMERS; POLYMER CONFIGURATION; RANDOMLY BRANCHED POLYMERS;

POLYMERS;

EID: 33745030581     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.228105     Document Type: Article

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