Simulation of semiflexible cyclic and linear chains moderately and strongly confined in nanochannels

Macromolecules

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2597-2608

  Benková, Zuzana ^a,b   Cifra, Peter ^a  

^a POLYMER INSTITUTE   (Slovakia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL FUNCTIONS; BIOLOGICAL PROCESS; CHAIN ARCHITECTURE; CHAIN ELONGATION; CHAIN EXTENSION; CHAIN TOPOLOGY; CHANNEL DIAMETERS; COARSE-GRAINED; CONFINEMENT STRENGTH; CONTOUR LENGTHS; CROSS SECTIONAL AREA; CYCLIC CHAINS; CYLINDRICAL CHANNEL; DNA MOLECULES; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; GEOMETRICAL CONSTRAINTS; LINEAR CHAIN; METROPOLIS MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; NANO CHANNELS; NARROW CHANNEL; RADIUS OF GYRATION; SELF-AVOIDANCE; STATIC STRUCTURE FACTORS; STIFF CHAINS; STRONG CONFINEMENT;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

QUANTUM CONFINEMENT;

EID: 84858258532     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma202730c     Document Type: Article

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