Coalescence Model for Crumpled Globules Formed in Polymer Collapse

The rapid collapse of a polymer, due to external forces or changes in solvent, yields a long-lived “crumpled globule.” The conjectured fractal structure shaped by hierarchical collapse dynamics has proved difficult to establish, even with large simulations. To unravel this puzzle, we study a coarse-...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bunin, Guy, Kardar, Mehran
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/98178
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1112-5912
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3074-4217