Helical Wormlike Chains in Polymer Solutions

• Main Authors: Yamakawa, Hiromi (Author), Yoshizaki, Takenao (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2016.
• Subjects: Chemistry.; Physical chemistry.; Polymers.; Nucleic acids.; Amorphous substances.; Complex fluids.; Biomaterials.; Polymer Sciences.; Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics.; Nucleic Acid Chemistry.; Physical Chemistry.

This book presents the "helical wormlike chain" model – a general model for both flexible and semiflexible polymer chains. It explains how statistical-mechanical, hydrodynamic, and dynamic theories of their solution properties can be developed on the basis of this model. This new second ed...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Models for Polymer Chains
• Chain Statistics—Wormlike Chains
• Chain Statistics—Helical Wormlike Chains
• Equilibrium Properties
• Transport Properties
• Applications to Circular DNA
• Excluded-Volume Effects
• Simulation and More on Excluded-Volume Effects
• Chain Dynamics
• Dynamical Properties.