eprintid: 1813
rev_number: 11
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type: article
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creators_name: Morrison, Greg
creators_name: Thirumalai, D.
creators_id: greg.morrison@imtlucca.it
creators_id: 
title: The shape of a flexible polymer in a cylindrical pore
ispublished: pub
subjects: QC
subjects: QD
divisions: EIC
full_text_status: public
abstract: 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.
date: 2005
date_type: published
publication: Journal of Chemical Physics 
volume: 122
number: 19
publisher: American Institute of Physics
pagerange: 194907
id_number: 10.1063/1.1903923
refereed: TRUE
issn: 0021-9606
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1903923
citation:   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)  
document_url: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/1813/1/05MorrisonJCP.pdf