Analog modeling of Worm-Like Chain molecules using macroscopic beads-on-a-string
Publication information:
S. Tricard, E. Feinstein, R. F. Shepherd, M. Reches, P. W. Snyder, D. C. Bandarage, M. Prentiss, and G. M. Whitesides. 2012. “Analog Modeling of Worm-Like Chain Molecules Using Macroscopic Beads-on-a-String”. PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 14, Pp. 9041-46
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.