Entanglement, elasticity and viscous relaxation of actin solutions
arXiv:cond-mat/9712037 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.2614
Abstract
We have investigated the viscosity and the plateau modulus of actin solutions with a magnetically driven rotating disc rheometer. For entangled solutions we observed a scaling of the plateau modulus versus concentration with a power of 7/5. The measured terminal relaxation time increases with a power 3/2 as a function of polymer length. We interpret the entanglement transition and the scaling of the plateau modulus in terms of the tube model for semiflexible polymers.
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