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ArticleThe European physical journal. E, Soft matter2007

Compressing a rigid filament: buckling and cyclization.

N-K Lee, A Johner, S-C Hong

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Article in The European physical journal. E, Soft matter, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Balance of microtubule stiffness and cortical tension determines the size of blood cells with marginal band across species.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017
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  4. DNA triplex folding: moderate versus high salt conditions.The European physical journal. E, Soft matter · 2013
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3 authors.

N-K LeeInstitute of Fundamental Physics, Department of Physics, Sejong University, 143-743, Seoul, South Korea. lee@sejong.ac.kr
A Johner
S-C Hong

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We study elastic properties of rigid filaments modeled as stiff chains shorter than their persistence length. By rigid filaments we mean that fluctuations around the optimal filament shape are weak and that low-order expansions (quadratic or quartic) in the deviation from the optimal shape are sufficient to describe them. Our main interest lies in the profiles of force vs. projected filament length, closure probability and weakly buckled states. Results may be relevant to experiments on self-assembled biological (microtubules, actin filaments) and synthetic (organo-gelators) filaments, carbon nanotubes and polymers grafted with strongly repelling side chains, some of which are discussed here.

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Compressive StrengthCyclizationElasticityModels, ChemicalProteinsThermodynamicsProteins

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