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Title: Confined semiflexible polymer chains

Journal Article · · Physical Review. E, Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics
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  1. Institut fuer Festkoerperforschung, Forschungszentrum Juelich, D-52425 Juelich (Germany)

Motivated by recent experiments on actin filaments, the behavior of semiflexible polymers confined between two rigid walls is investigated as a function of the wall distance. For fixed bending stiffness the persistence length depends on the wall distance and shows an interesting crossover.

OSTI ID:
165058
Journal Information:
Physical Review. E, Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics, Vol. 51, Issue 3; Other Information: PBD: Mar 1995
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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