Morphological variation in a toroid generated from a single polymer chain.
A single semiflexible polymer chain folds into a toroidal object under poor solvent conditions. In this study, we examined the morphological change in such a toroidal state as a function of the cross-sectional area and stiffness of the chain together with the surface energy, which characterizes the segmental interaction parameter. Changes in the thickness and outer/inner radius on a toroid are interpreted in terms of these parameters. Our theoretical expectation corresponds to the actual morphological changes in a single giant DNA molecule as observed by electron microscopy.
Takenaka
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Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan.
Yoshikawa
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Yoshikawa
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Koyama
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Kanbe
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