Statistical Mechanics of Semiflexible Bundles of Wormlike Polymer Chains
Abstract
We demonstrate that a semiflexible bundle of wormlike chains exhibits a state-dependent bending stiffness that alters fundamentally its scaling behavior with respect to the standard wormlike chain. We explore the equilibrium conformational and mechanical behavior of wormlike bundles in isolation, in cross-linked networks, and in solution.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- July 2007
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.048101
- Bibcode:
- 2007PhRvL..99d8101H
- Keywords:
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- 87.16.Ka;
- 82.35.Lr;
- 83.10.-y;
- 87.15.La;
- Filaments microtubules their networks and supramolecular assemblies;
- Physical properties of polymers;
- Fundamentals and theoretical;
- Mechanical properties