Dynamic Scattering from Semiflexible Polymers
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We discuss the dynamics of dilute and semidilute solutions of semirigid chains. The results can be applied to analyze recent light scattering experiments from solutions of actin filaments where an anomalous scaling of the dynamic structure factor was found. This anomalous scaling is explained as being due to anisotropic scaling of characteristic length scales parallel and perpendicular to a filament and leads to characteristic frequencies in the system scaling as q8Is log(@.
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تاریخ انتشار 2001