Polymers in Curved Boxes
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Polymers in Curved Boxes
We apply results derived in other contexts for the spectrum of the Laplace operator in curved geometries to the study of an ideal polymer chain confined to a spherical annulus in arbitrary space dimension D and conclude that the free energy compared to its value for an uncurved box of the same thickness and volume, is lower when D < 3, stays the same when D = 3, and is higher when D > 3. Thus c...
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عنوان ژورنال: Macromolecules
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0024-9297,1520-5835
DOI: 10.1021/ma961088x