Issue 25, 2012
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Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Analog modeling of Worm-Like Chain molecules using macroscopic beads-on-a-string†

Simon Tricard,*a   Efraim Feinstein,b   Robert F. Shepherd,a   Meital Reches,a   Phillip W. Snyder,a   Dileni C. Bandarage,a   Mara Prentissb  and  George M. Whitesides*ac  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, USA
E-mail: stricard@lcc-toulouse.fr, gwhitesides@gmwgroup.harvard.edu

b Department of Physics, Harvard University, 17 Oxford Street, Cambridge, USA

c Kavli Institute for Bionano Science & Technology, Harvard University, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, USA

Abstract

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.

Graphical abstract: Analog modeling of Worm-Like Chain molecules using macroscopic beads-on-a-string

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2CP40593H
Article type
Communication
Submitted
24 Feb 2012
Accepted
09 May 2012
First published
28 May 2012

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2012,14, 9041-9046

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Analog modeling of Worm-Like Chain molecules using macroscopic beads-on-a-string

S. Tricard, E. Feinstein, R. F. Shepherd, M. Reches, P. W. Snyder, D. C. Bandarage, M. Prentiss and G. M. Whitesides, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2012, 14, 9041 DOI: 10.1039/C2CP40593H

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