Free energy of deformation of the radius of gyration in semiflexible chains

Macromolecular Theory and Simulations

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 501-512

  Cifra, Peter ^a   Bleha, Tomáš ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Computer modeling; Monte Carlo simulations; Semiflexible polymers; Statistical thermodynamics; WLC model

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREE ENERGY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; STATISTICAL METHODS; THERMODYNAMICS;

ELASTIC COMPRESSION; SEMIFLEXIBLE POLYMERS; WLC MODELS; WORMLIKE CHAIN (WLC);

DEFORMATION;

EID: 34547617742     PISSN: 10221344     EISSN: 15213919     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mats.200700023     Document Type: Article

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