ISSN:
1089-7690
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
A recently discovered connection between Dirac's fermions and semiflexible polymers [Ann. Phys. (NY) 202, 186 (1990)] is developed further. The scattering form factor, diffusion and viscosity coefficients, and relaxation times are obtained for the arbitrary stiffness of the chain in the limit of infinite dilution. It is demonstrated explicitly how the excluded volume effects can be incorporated in calculations of the above observables. New methods of experimental determination of the persistence length in the presence of excluded volume effects are proposed along with a new method of experimental evaluation of the excluded volume parameter. Obtained results can be used for both homo and random semiflexible copolymers.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.462455
