Linear self-assembly under confinement.
An exactly solvable model is used to obtain the response to confinement of the cluster distribution of linear aggregation. A direct relevance to simulation studies of linear self-assembly in discotic solutions and in peptide tape formation is proposed. The mapping predicts, for typical simulation procedures, that a finite reservoir of solute leads to a dramatic departure from isodesmic chemical equilibria for solute-solute interaction strengths higher than only a few k(B)T .
Henderson
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School of Physics and Astronomy and Centre for Self-Organising Molecular Systems, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom.