Collapse of a semiflexible polymer in poor solvent

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

Volumn 69, Issue 2 1, 2004, Pages

  Montesi, Alberto ^a,b   Pasquali, Matteo ^a,b   MacKintosh, F C ^b,c  

^a Rice University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BENDING (DEFORMATION); BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONDENSATION; CONFORMATIONS; DNA; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; GROUND STATE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SHEAR FLOW; SOLVENTS; STIFFNESS; VECTORS;

BROWNIAN DYNAMICS; DECAY RATES; METASTABLE STATES; SEMIFLEXIBLE POLYMERS;

ORGANIC POLYMERS;

BIOPOLYMER; POLYMER; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; SOLVENT;

CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; DIFFUSION; ELASTICITY; ENERGY TRANSFER; EVALUATION STUDY; MECHANICAL STRESS; MOTION; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY;

BIOPOLYMERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; ELASTICITY; ENERGY TRANSFER; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MOTION; POLYMERS; SOLUTIONS; SOLVENTS; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 37649028306     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.69.021916     Document Type: Article

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