Semiflexible Polymer Confined in Closed Spaces

Details Semiflexible Polymer Confined in Closed Spaces Semiflexible Polymer Confined in Closed Spaces

2007-03-13

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0703321v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

7 pages, 2 figures

Scientific paper

10.1021/ma070594r

We analyze static properties of a strongly confined semiflexible polymer, i.e. either trapped in a closed space or compressed by external forces, in an athermal solvent. Like a flexible polymer case, we can resort to an analogy with the semidilute solution, but a complication due to the additional length scale arising from the chain rigidity results in more diverse behaviours depending on system parameters. For each regime, scaling forms of the excess free energy of the confinement are derived. Effects of the confinement geometry and the solvent quality are briefly discussed.

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