Effect of confinement on the collapsing mechanism of a flexible polymer chain

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 133, Issue 17, 2010, Pages

  Das, Siddhartha ^a   Chakraborty, Suman ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; CHANNEL DIMENSION; CHANNEL HEIGHT; COLLAPSE MECHANISM; COLLAPSE TIME; CONFINEMENT EFFECTS; CRITICAL DIMENSION; DECREASE LINEARLY; DEGREE OF CONFINEMENT; ENERGY ESTIMATION; EXPONENTIAL DEPENDENCE; FLEXIBLE POLYMER CHAINS; HYDRODYNAMIC INTERACTION; HYDROPHOBIC POLYMER CHAINS; MECHANISM AND KINETICS; POLYMER COLLAPSE; POLYMER SEGMENTS; POOR SOLVENTS;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT;

POLYMERS;

EID: 78650635183     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3495479     Document Type: Article

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