Elongation and fluctuations of semiflexible polymers in a nematic solvent

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 12, 2004, Pages

  Dogic, Z ^a,c   Zhang, J ^a   Lau, A W C ^a   Aranda Espinoza, H ^a   Dalhaimer, P ^b   Discher, D E ^b   Janmey, P A ^a   Kamien, Randall D ^a   Lubensky, T C ^a   Yodh, A G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BIOPOLYMERS; CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; CORRELATION METHODS; DEFLECTION (STRUCTURES); DISSOLUTION; DNA; ELASTICITY; FLUORESCENCE; FUNCTIONS; MICELLES; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; PHASE SEPARATION; STRESS ANALYSIS;

BOLTZMANN CONSTANTS; ODIJK DEFLECTION; ORIENTATIONAL DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS (ODF); TANGENT-TANGENT CORRELATION FUNCTION (TTCF);

SOLVENTS;

ACTIN; BIOPOLYMER; FLUORESCENT DYE; MICELLE; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN; SOLVENT; VIRUS DNA;

CHEMISTRY; ENTEROBACTERIA PHAGE LAMBDA; ENTEROBACTERIA PHAGE M13; GENETICS; MICELLE;

ACTINS; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; BACTERIOPHAGE M13; BIOPOLYMERS; DNA, VIRAL; FLUORESCENT DYES; MICELLES; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; SOLVENTS;

EID: 85032431510     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.125503     Document Type: Article

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