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cond-mat.soft2004★ 27 cited
Elastic constants of nematic liquid crystals of uniaxial symmetry
Amit Srivastava, Shri Singh
We study in detail the influence of molecular interactions on the Frank elastic constants of uniaxial nematic liquid crystals composed of molecules of cylindrical symmetry. A brief…
cond-mat.soft2004
Statistical Mechanics of thermal denaturation of DNA oligomers
Navin Singh, Yashwant Singh
Double stranded DNA chain is known to have nontrivial elasticity. We study the effect of this elasticity on the denaturation profile of DNA oligomer by constraining one base pair a…
cond-mat.soft2004★ 48 cited
Statistical Theory of Force Induced Unzipping of DNA
Navin Singh, Yashwant Singh
The unzipping transition under the influence of external force of a dsDNA molecule has been studied using the Peyrard-Bishop Hamiltonian. The critical force is found to de…