Length distribution of stiff, self-assembled polymers at thermal equilibrium
arXiv:1208.2906 · doi:10.1088/0953-8984/24/41/415101
Abstract
We investigate the length distribution of self-assembled, long and stiff polymers at thermal equilibrium. Our analysis is based on calculating the partition functions of stiff polymers of variable lengths in the elastic regime. Our conclusion is that the length distribution of this self-assembled system follows closely the exponential distribution, except at the short length limit. We then discuss the implications of our results on the experimentally observed length distributions in amyloid fibrils.
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