Novel conformations of isolated semiflexible block copolymers

E. Hernández-Zapata, I.R. Cooke and D.R.M. Williams

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2004, vol. 339, issue 1, 40-44

Abstract: We investigate the conformations of single regularly-repeating block copolymer chains with rigidity in a poor solvent. We predict the existence of two novel conformations—the stripey torus and the figure eight, and examine the stability of these theoretically.

Keywords: Semiflexible block copolymers; DNA condensation in poor solvent; Brownian dynamics simulations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2004.03.060

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