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  • Title: Scattering function of semiflexible polymer chains under good solvent conditions.
    Author: Hsu HP, Paul W, Binder K.
    Journal: J Chem Phys; 2012 Nov 07; 137(17):174902. PubMed ID: 23145745.
    Abstract:
    Using the pruned-enriched Rosenbluth Monte Carlo algorithm, the scattering functions of semiflexible macromolecules in dilute solution under good solvent conditions are estimated both in d = 2 and d = 3 dimensions, considering also the effect of stretching forces. Using self-avoiding walks of up to N = 25,600 steps on the square and simple cubic lattices, variable chain stiffness is modeled by introducing an energy penalty ε(b) for chain bending; varying q(b) = exp (-ε(b)∕k(B)T) from q(b) = 1 (completely flexible chains) to q(b) = 0.005, the persistence length can be varied over two orders of magnitude. For unstretched semiflexible chains, we test the applicability of the Kratky-Porod worm-like chain model to describe the scattering function and discuss methods for extracting persistence length estimates from scattering. While in d = 2 the direct crossover from rod-like chains to self-avoiding walks invalidates the Kratky-Porod description, it holds in d = 3 for stiff chains if the number of Kuhn segments n(K) does not exceed a limiting value n(K)(*) (which depends on the persistence length). For stretched chains, the Pincus blob size enters as a further characteristic length scale. The anisotropy of the scattering is well described by the modified Debye function, if the actual observed chain extension <X> (end-to-end distance in the direction of the force) as well as the corresponding longitudinal and transverse linear dimensions <X(2)> - <X>(2), <R(g,⊥)(2)> are used.
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