Internal Friction and Nonequilibrium Unfolding of Polymeric Globules

The stretching response of a single collapsed homopolymer is studied using Brownian dynamic simulations. The irreversibly dissipated work is found to be dominated by internal friction effects below the collapse temperature, and the internal viscosity grows exponentially with the effective cohesive s...

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Main Authors: Wada, Hirofumi, Netz, Roland R., Alexander-Katz, Alfredo
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Physical Society 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/51824
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5554-1283