On the confinement of semiflexible chains under torsion
Soft Condensed Matter
2013-01-18 v1 Biomolecules
Abstract
The effect of a finite torque on semiflexible polymers in a confined environment is investigated. It is shown how a new lengthscale appears in the strongly confined limit. The influence of a torque on the extension of biopolymers in nanochannels is also touched upon and it is argued that the presence of a torque has a strong influence on the dimensions of nanochannels needed to prevent hairpins.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1212.6294,
title = {On the confinement of semiflexible chains under torsion},
author = {Marc Emanuel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.6294},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
17 pages, 5 figures, has been accepted by the Journal of Chemical Physics