Helical Wormlike Chains in Polymer Solutions [electronic resource] /
Yamakawa, Hiromi.author.
Yoshizaki, Takenao.author.
This book presents the "helical wormlike chain" model – a general model for both flexible and semiflexible polymer chains. It explains how statistical-mechanical, hydrodynamic, and dynamic theories of their solution properties can be developed on the basis of this model. This new second edition has been carefully updated and thoroughly revised. It includes a new chapter covering "Simulation and More on Excluded-Volume Effects", as well as the discussion of new experimental data and the application of the theory to ring polymers. The authors provide analysis of important recent experimental data by the use of their theories for flexible polymers over a wide range of molecular weights, including the oligomer region, and for semiflexible polymers, including biological macromolecules such as DNA. This is all clearly illustrated using a reasonable number of theoretical equations, tables, figures, and computer-aided forms, which support the understanding of the basic theory and help to facilitate its application to experimental data for the polymer molecular characterization.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.
Introduction -- Models for Polymer Chains -- Chain Statistics—Wormlike Chains -- Chain Statistics—Helical Wormlike Chains -- Equilibrium Properties -- Transport Properties -- Applications to Circular DNA -- Excluded-Volume Effects -- Simulation and More on Excluded-Volume Effects -- Chain Dynamics -- Dynamical Properties.
This book presents the "helical wormlike chain" model – a general model for both flexible and semiflexible polymer chains. It explains how statistical-mechanical, hydrodynamic, and dynamic theories of their solution properties can be developed on the basis of this model. This new second edition has been carefully updated and thoroughly revised. It includes a new chapter covering "Simulation and More on Excluded-Volume Effects", as well as the discussion of new experimental data and the application of the theory to ring polymers. The authors provide analysis of important recent experimental data by the use of their theories for flexible polymers over a wide range of molecular weights, including the oligomer region, and for semiflexible polymers, including biological macromolecules such as DNA. This is all clearly illustrated using a reasonable number of theoretical equations, tables, figures, and computer-aided forms, which support the understanding of the basic theory and help to facilitate its application to experimental data for the polymer molecular characterization.
Polymers  .
Amorphous substances.
Complex fluids.
Nucleic acids.
Physical chemistry.
Biomaterials.
Polymer Sciences.
Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics.
Nucleic Acid Chemistry.
Physical Chemistry.
Biomaterials.