Semiflexible Chains at Surfaces: Worm-Like Chains and beyond
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Institut Charles Sadron, CNRS-UdS, 23 rue du Loess, BP 84047, 67034 Strasbourg cedex 2, France
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Equipe BioPhysStat Université de Lorraine, 1 boulevard Arago, 57070 Metz, France
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Physikalisches Institut, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Hermann-Herder-Strasse 3, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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Department of Physics, Sejong University, Neundongro 209, Seoul 05006, Korea
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Current address: Purdue University Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering 206 S. Martin Jischke Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2032, USA
Academic Editor: Martin Kröger
Polymers 2016, 8(8), 286; https://doi.org/10.3390/polym8080286
Received: 7 June 2016
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Revised: 29 July 2016
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Accepted: 29 July 2016
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Published: 8 August 2016
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Semiflexible Polymers)
We give an extended review of recent numerical and analytical studies on semiflexible chains near surfaces undertaken at Institut Charles Sadron (sometimes in collaboration) with a focus on static properties. The statistical physics of thin confined layers, strict two-dimensional (2D) layers and adsorption layers (both at equilibrium with the dilute bath and from irreversible chemisorption) are discussed for the well-known worm-like-chain (WLC) model. There is mounting evidence that biofilaments (except stable d-DNA) are not fully described by the WLC model. A number of augmented models, like the (super) helical WLC model, the polymorphic model of microtubules (MT) and a model with (strongly) nonlinear flexural elasticity are presented, and some aspects of their surface behavior are analyzed. In many cases, we use approaches different from those in our previous work, give additional results and try to adopt a more general point of view with the hope to shed some light on this complex field.
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Keywords:
semiflexible polymers; polymers at interfaces; biopolymers
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Baschnagel, J.; Meyer, H.; Wittmer, J.; Kulić, I.; Mohrbach, H.; Ziebert, F.; Nam, G.-M.; Lee, N.-K.; Johner, A. Semiflexible Chains at Surfaces: Worm-Like Chains and beyond. Polymers 2016, 8, 286. https://doi.org/10.3390/polym8080286
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Baschnagel J, Meyer H, Wittmer J, Kulić I, Mohrbach H, Ziebert F, Nam G-M, Lee N-K, Johner A. Semiflexible Chains at Surfaces: Worm-Like Chains and beyond. Polymers. 2016; 8(8):286. https://doi.org/10.3390/polym8080286
Chicago/Turabian StyleBaschnagel, Jörg, Hendrik Meyer, Joachim Wittmer, Igor Kulić, Hervé Mohrbach, Falko Ziebert, Gi-Moon Nam, Nam-Kyung Lee, and Albert Johner. 2016. "Semiflexible Chains at Surfaces: Worm-Like Chains and beyond" Polymers 8, no. 8: 286. https://doi.org/10.3390/polym8080286
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