Polymer persistence length characterized as a critical length for instability caused by a fluctuating twist

Publisher Website
Google Scholar
Abstract
We establish the identity of the persistence length of an easily bendable polymer with the critical length for the onset of elastic instability toward bending induced by the root-mean-square twist. For a polymer of arbitrary bending stiffness the identity remains approximately valid; the ratio of persistence length to critical length is always within 20% of unity.

This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit: