Equilibrium characteristics of semiflexible polymer solutions near probe particles

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

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Ganesan, Venkat ^a   Khounlavong, Landry ^a   Pryamitsyn, Victor ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABS RESINS; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; COLLOIDS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CORRELATION METHODS; MEAN FIELD THEORY; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PLASMAS; POLYMER SOLUTIONS; SOIL MECHANICS; SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS; SOLUTIONS;

CORRELATION LENGTHS; CRITICAL LENGTHS; CURVATURE EFFECTS; DEPLETION THICKNESSES; FIELD THEORIES; LENGTH SCALES; PARAMETRIC DEPENDENCIES; PERSISTENCE LENGTHS; POLYMER CONCENTRATIONS; RELATIVE RATIOS; SEMIFLEXIBLE POLYMERS; SPHERICAL SURFACES;

POLYMERS;

EID: 56749185966     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.78.051804     Document Type: Article

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