Instabilities of charged polyampholytes
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Instabilities of charged polyampholytes.
We consider polymers formed from a (quenched) random sequence of charged monomers of opposite signs. Such polymers, known as polyampholytes (PAs), are compact when completely neutral and expanded when highly charged. We examine the transition between the two regimes by Monte Carlo simulations, and by analogies to charged drops. We find that the overall excess charge, Q, is the main determinant ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review E
سال: 1995
ISSN: 1063-651X,1095-3787
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.51.1299