TY - JOUR
T1 - Chain length dependence of folding transition in a semiflexible homo-polymer chain
T2 - Appearance of a core-shell structure
AU - Higuchi, Yuji
AU - Sakaue, Takahiro
AU - Yoshikawa, Kenichi
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) under a Grant-in-Aid for Creative Scientific Research (Project No. 18GS0421).
PY - 2008/8/8
Y1 - 2008/8/8
N2 - The folding transition of single, long semiflexible polymers was studied with special emphasis on the chain length effect using Monte Carlo simulations. While a relatively short chain (10-25 Kuhn segments) undergoes a large discrete transition between swollen coil and compact toroid conformations, a long chain (50 Kuhn segments) exhibits an intrachain segregated state between the disordered coil and ordered toroid.
AB - The folding transition of single, long semiflexible polymers was studied with special emphasis on the chain length effect using Monte Carlo simulations. While a relatively short chain (10-25 Kuhn segments) undergoes a large discrete transition between swollen coil and compact toroid conformations, a long chain (50 Kuhn segments) exhibits an intrachain segregated state between the disordered coil and ordered toroid.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cplett.2008.06.068
DO - 10.1016/j.cplett.2008.06.068
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:48149087795
SN - 0009-2614
VL - 461
SP - 42
EP - 46
JO - Chemical Physics Letters
JF - Chemical Physics Letters
IS - 1-3
ER -