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Extension of a wormlike chain with variable persistence length in cylindrical tube confinement

Biological Physics 2019-11-05 v2 Soft Condensed Matter

Abstract

The present paper investigates the extension behavior of a wormlike chain with varied persistence length under the confinement of a cylindrical tube. Based on Odijk theory of a confined polymer chain, we have developed a theory which can describe the mechanical behavior of wormlike chain with varying bending rigidities along the chain. In order to validate our model, we also performed large numbers of Brownian dynamics simulations based on the generalized bead model (GBR), which illustrate that our theory is in good agreement with simulation results.

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@article{arxiv.1910.13751,
  title  = {Extension of a wormlike chain with variable persistence length in cylindrical tube confinement},
  author = {Ming Li and Jizeng Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.13751},
  year   = {2019}
}

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