Folding and unfolding kinetics of a single semiflexible polymer

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

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Yoshinaga, Natsuhiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICALS; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS; MONOMERS; POLYMERS;

(E ,2E) THEORY; AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY (APS); DYNAMIC SCALING; FOLDING TRANSITION; HYDRODYNAMIC INTERACTIONS; LANGEVIN DYNAMICS (LD); SEMIFLEXIBLE POLYMERS; TRANSITION (JEL CLASSIFICATIONS:E52 ,E41 ,E31); UNFOLDING KINETICS;

KINETICS;

EID: 45849111838     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.77.061805     Document Type: Article

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