Stretching short biopolymers by fields and forces

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Hori, Yuko ^a   Prasad, Ashok ^a   Kondev, Jané ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; PLASTICITY; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

CONTOUR LENGTH; SEMIFLEXIBLE POLYMERS; THERMAL FLUCTUATIONS;

BIOPOLYMERS;

EID: 34147191107     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.75.041904     Document Type: Article

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