Diffraction from Polymerized Membranes
- 27 July 1990
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 249 (4967) , 393-397
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.249.4967.393
Abstract
Flexible polymerized membranes in a good solvent are expected to exhibit a remarkable low-temperature flat phase, characterized by a diverging bending rigidity, vanishing elastic constants, and large fluctuations both parallel and perpendicular to the surface. A theory of the equilibrium structure factor provides a good fit to extensive molecular dynamics simulations of simplified "tethered surface" models of these materials. These results show how information about the size, thickness, and internal structure of polymerized membranes can be extracted from diffraction experiments.Keywords
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