| Language: | English |
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| 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. |
Yoshiko Takenaka, Damien Baigl and Kenichi Yoshikawa, 108-113 (2006)