Critical buckling length versus persistence length: What governs biofilament conformation?

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 102, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Lakkaraju, Sirish Kaushik ^a   Hwang, Wonmuk ^a  

^a Texas A and M University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFORMATIONS; STEEL STRUCTURES;

BENDING STIFFNESS; BUCKLING INSTABILITIES; BUCKLING LENGTHS; COILED COILS; CONFORMATIONAL ENSEMBLES; LENGTH DEPENDENCES; LENGTH-SCALE; LINEAR CHAINS; PERSISTENCE LENGTHS; PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITIONS;

BUCKLING;

EID: 63049108582     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.118102     Document Type: Article

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