Kinks, rings, and rackets in filamentous structures

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2004-04-24

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0404584v1

PNAS 100: 12141-12146 (2003)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

This paper was originally published in PNAS 100: 12141-12146 (2003). The present version has corrected Eq. 3, A1, and A2, and

Scientific paper

10.1073/pnas.1534600100

Carbon nanotubes and biological filaments each spontaneously assemble into kinked helices, rings, and "tennis racket" shapes due to competition between elastic and interfacial effects. We show that the slender geometry is a more important determinant of the morphology than any molecular details. Our mesoscopic continuum theory is capable of quantifying observations of these structures, and is suggestive of their occurrence in other filamentous assemblies as well.

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