Entropic force of polymers on a cone tip

We consider polymers attached to the tip of a cone, and the resulting force due to entropy loss on approaching a plate (or another cone). At separations shorter than the polymer radius of gyration Rg, the only relevant length scale is the tip-plate (or tip-tip) separation h, and the entropic force i...

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Main Authors: Faghfoor Maghrebi, Mohammad, Kantor, Yacov, Kardar, Mehran
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: IOP Publishing 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/76595
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1112-5912