Collapse transition of two-dimensional flexible and semiflexible polymers

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 15, 2006, Pages

  Zhou, Haijun ^a   Zhou, Jie ^a   Ou Yang, Zhong Can ^a   Kumar, Sanjay ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^b BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING STIFFNESS; COLLAPSE TRANSITION; LATTICE MODELS; SURFACE CONFINED POLYMERS;

BENDING (DEFORMATION); COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; STIFFNESS;

POLYMERS;

DNA; POLYMER; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

DNA; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; POLYMERS; PROTEINS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 33749592367     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.158302     Document Type: Article

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