Writhe distribution of stretched polymers
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The Writhe Distribution Of Stretched Polymers
In recent years, there has been much interest in the area of statistical mechanics of semiflexible polymers. These studies have been motivated by experiments [1] on biopolymers in which single molecules are stretched and twisted to measure elastic properties. These experiments are designed to understand the role of semiflexible polymer elasticity in, for instance, the packaging of these polymer...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review E
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1539-3755,1550-2376
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.70.011801