Scale-dependent electrostatic stiffening in biopolymers

Macromolecules

Volumn 42, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 5851-5860

  Gubarev, Alexander ^a,b   Carrillo, Jan Michael Y ^a   Dobrynin, Andrey V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING RIGIDITY; BJERRUM LENGTH; CHARACTERISTIC LENGTH; CHARGED POLYMERS; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DEBYE RADIUS; DEBYE SCREENING LENGTH; EXPONENTIAL FUNCTIONS; HIGH SALT CONCENTRATION; LOGARITHMIC DEPENDENCE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; ORIENTATIONAL CORRELATIONS; PERSISTENCE LENGTH; POLYMER BACKBONES; QUADRATIC DEPENDENCE; SALT CONCENTRATION; SIMULATION RESULT; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS; THEORETICAL MODELS;

BIOPOLYMERS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

RIGIDITY;

EID: 68549135359     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma9008143     Document Type: Article

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