Anomalous bending of a polyelectrolyte

Details Anomalous bending of a polyelectrolyte Anomalous bending of a polyelectrolyte

2002-08-08

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0208178v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

RevTeX 4, 10 pages, 11 eps figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.67.061805

We report on a study of the shape of a stiff, charged rod that is subjected to equal and opposite force couples at its two ends. Unlike a neutral elastic rod, which forms a constant curvature configuration under such influences, the charged rod tends to flatten in the interior and accumulate the curvature in the end points, to maximally reduce the electrostatic self-repulsion. The effect of this nonuniform bending on the effective elasticity and on the statistical conformations of a fluctuating charged rod is discussed. An alternative definition for the electrostatic persistence length is suggested. This new definition is found to be consistent with a corresponding length that can be deduced from the end-to-end distribution function of a fluctuating polyelectrolyte.

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