relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/1813/
title: The shape of a flexible polymer in a cylindrical pore
creator: Morrison, Greg
creator: Thirumalai, D.
subject: QC Physics
subject: QD Chemistry
description: We calculate the mean end-to-end distance R of a self-avoiding polymer encapsulated in an infinitely long cylinder with radius D. A self-consistent perturbation theory is used to calculate R as a function of D for impenetrable hard walls and soft walls. In both cases, R obeys the predicted scaling behavior in the limit of large and small D. The crossover from the three-dimensional behavior (D→∞) to the fully stretched one-dimensional case (D→0) is nonmonotonic. The minimum value of R is found at D ∼ 0.46RF, where RF is the Flory radius of R at D→∞. The results for soft walls map onto the hard wall case with a larger cylinder radius.
publisher: American Institute of Physics
date: 2005
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/1813/1/05MorrisonJCP.pdf
identifier:   Morrison, Greg and Thirumalai, D.  The shape of a flexible polymer in a cylindrical pore.  Journal of Chemical Physics , 122 (19).  p. 194907.  ISSN 0021-9606      (2005)  
relation: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1903923
relation: 10.1063/1.1903923