Analog modeling of Worm-Like Chain molecules using macroscopic beads-on-a-string.
This paper describes an empirical model of polymer dynamics, based on the agitation of millimeter-sized polymeric beads. Although the interactions between the particles in the macroscopic model and those between the monomers of molecular-scale polymers are fundamentally different, both systems follow the Worm-Like Chain theory.
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. stricard@lcc-toulouse.fr
Simon
S
Tricard
Efraim
E
Feinstein
Robert F
RF
Shepherd
Meital
M
Reches
Phillip W
PW
Snyder
Dileni C
DC
Bandarage
Mara
M
Prentiss
George M
GM
Whitesides
D056004:Molecular Dynamics Simulation; D009010:Monte Carlo Method; D011108:Polymers / Q000737:chemistry*; D013314:Stress, Mechanical
D011108:Polymers