Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2007-02-06
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
4 pages, 5 figures, submitted to PRL
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.76.010501
Brownian dynamics simulations are used to study highly entangled solutions of semiflexible polymers. Bending fluctuations of semiflexible rods are signficantly affected by entanglement only above a concentration $c^{**}$, where $c^{**}\sim 10^{3}L^{-3}$ for chains of similar length $L$ and persistence length. For $c > c^{**}$, the tube radius $R_{e}$ approaches a dependence $R_{e} \propto c^{-3/5}$, and the linear viscoelastic response develops an elastic contribution that is absent for $c < c^{**}$. Experiments on isotropic solutions of $F$-actin span concentrations near $c^{**}$ for which the predicted asymptotic scaling of the plateau modulus $G \propto c^{7/5}$ is not yet valid.
Morse David C.
Ramanathan Shriram
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