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Title : Topology in Morphologies of a Folded Single-Chain Polymer

Language: English
Type: InProceedings
Authors: Yoshiko Takenaka, Damien Baigl and Kenichi Yoshikawa
Booktitle: Topology in Ordered Phases
Series: Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on TOP2005
Location: Sapporo, Japan
Month: 3
Year: 2006
Actual year: 2005
Pages: 108-113
doi:   10.1142/9789812772879_0017
Abstract: Folding transition of a single semiflexible polymer under poor solvent conditions can lead to a large variety of morphologies. We performed an analysis on these morphological changes by simple theoretical treatment and classified the different conformations by using the topological index called genus. In particular, we investigated the effects of stiffness and thickness of the chain on the toroidal conformation, a typical morphology of condensed semiflexible chains. Our results are in a semi-quantitative agreement with single-chain observation on long duplex DNA molecules.

"Topology in Morphologies of a Folded Single-Chain Polymer"

Yoshiko Takenaka, Damien Baigl and Kenichi Yoshikawa, 108-113 (2006)