Phase transitions of a single polyelectrolyte in a poor solvent with explicit counterions

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 135, Issue 15, 2011, Pages

  Varghese, Anoop ^a   Vemparala, Satyavani ^a   Rajesh, R ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPHERICITY; CONDENSATION OF COUNTERIONS; CONFORMATIONAL PROPERTIES; CONSTANT TEMPERATURE MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; CONTINUOUS PHASE TRANSITIONS; COULOMB INTERACTION ENERGY; COUNTERIONS; CRITICAL EXPONENT; FINITE SIZE EFFECT; FIRST-ORDER PHASE TRANSITIONS; FLEXIBLE POLYELECTROLYTES; INTERMEDIATE PHASE; POOR SOLVENTS; RADIUS OF GYRATION; THEORETICAL PREDICTION;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; POLYELECTROLYTES;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 80155131495     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3653378     Document Type: Article

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