Semiflexible polymer condensates in poor solvents: Toroid versus spherical geometries

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

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

  Miller, I C B ^a   Keentok, M ^b   Pereira, G G ^b,c   Williams, D R M ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING ENERGY; MONOMER-MONOMER INTERACTIONS; SEMIFLEXIBLE POLYMERS; TOROIDS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BLOOD VESSELS; DNA; FREE ENERGY; MONOMERS; SOLVENTS; THEOREM PROVING;

POLYMERS;

EID: 37649029334     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.71.031802     Document Type: Article

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