ArticleEntropy (Basel, Switzerland)2008
Conformational Entropy of an Ideal Cross-Linking Polymer Chain.
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- Thermo-Responsive Polymer-Based Nanoparticles: From Chemical Design to Advanced Applications.Macromolecular rapid communications · 2025Review
- DNA-Intercalating Supramolecular Hydrogels for Tunable Thermal and Viscoelastic Properties.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2024Article
- Hydrogels in Ophthalmology: Novel Strategies for Overcoming Therapeutic Challenges.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- The Effect of Cross-Linking Type on EPDM Elastomer Dynamics and Mechanical Properties: A Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study.Polymers · 2022Article
- Nonadditivity in conformational entropy upon molecular rigidification reveals a universal mechanism affecting folding cooperativity.Biophysical journal · 2011Article
- Ensemble-based methods for describing protein dynamics.Current opinion in pharmacology · 2010Review
- Computing the conformational entropy for RNA folds.The Journal of chemical physics · 2010Article
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Abstract
We present a novel analytical method to calculate conformational entropy of ideal cross-linking polymers from the configuration integral by employing a Mayer series expansion. Mayer-functions describing chemical bonds within the chain and for cross-links are sharply peaked over the temperature range of interest, and, are well approximated as statistically weighted Dirac delta-functions that enforce distance constraints. All geometrical deformations consistent with a set of distance constraints are integrated over. Exact results for a contiguous series of connected loops are employed to substantiate the validity of a previous phenomenological distance constraint model that describes protein thermodynamics successfully based on network rigidity.
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