Finite-length effects on the coil-globule transition of a strongly charged polyelectrolyte chain in a salt-free solvent

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Chi, Peng ^a   Wang, Zheng ^a   Yin, Yuhua ^a   Li, Baohui ^a   Shi, An Chang ^b  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGED POLYELECTROLYTES; COIL-GLOBULE TRANSITIONS; ION CONCENTRATIONS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; RADIUS OF GYRATION; SCALING BEHAVIOR; SOLVENT MOLECULES; THERMODYNAMIC LIMITS;

CHAIN LENGTH; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

POLYELECTROLYTES;

EID: 84877756983     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.87.042608     Document Type: Article

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