Complete free energy landscape and statistical thermodynamics of single poly(ethylene glycol) molecules

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Staple, Douglas ^a   Hanke, Felix ^a,b   Kreuzer, Hans Jürgen ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b FRITZ HABER INSTITUT DER MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; FORCE MEASUREMENT; FREE ENERGY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; TRANSFER MATRIX METHOD;

AD HOC APPROXIMATIONS; FORCE EXTENSION CURVE; ISOMERIC STATE MODEL; LOCAL HELIX PROPERTIES;

POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS;

EID: 33947622617     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/9/3/068     Document Type: Article

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