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ArticleThe Journal of chemical physics2017

Conformations and orientational ordering of semiflexible polymers in spherical confinement.

Andrey Milchev, Sergei A Egorov, Arash Nikoubashman, Kurt Binder

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Article in The Journal of chemical physics, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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4 authors.

Andrey MilchevInstitute for Physical Chemistry, Bulgarian Academia of Sciences, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria.ORCID 0000000319910648
Sergei A EgorovInstitute of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Staudingerweg 7, 55128 Mainz, Germany.
Arash NikoubashmanInstitute of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Staudingerweg 7, 55128 Mainz, Germany.ORCID 000000030563825X
Kurt BinderInstitute of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Staudingerweg 7, 55128 Mainz, Germany.

Funding

Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Semiflexible polymers in lyotropic solution confined inside spherical nanoscopic "containers" with repulsive walls are studied by molecular dynamics simulations and density functional theory, as a first step to model confinement effects on stiff polymers inside of miniemulsions, vesicles, and cells. It is shown that the depletion effects caused by the monomer-wall repulsion depend distinctly on the radius R of the sphere. Further, nontrivial orientational effects occur when R, the persistence length ℓ

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PMID28527445
PMCPMC5438305

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