4 papers
Depletion forces between two spheres in a rod solution
K. Yaman, C. Jeppesen, C. M. Marques
We study the depletion interaction between spherical particles of radius R immersed in a dilute solution of rigid rods of length L. The computed interaction potential is, within nu…
Rods Near Curved Surfaces and in Curved Boxes
K. Yaman, M. Jeng, P. Pincus +2
We consider an ideal gas of infinitely rigid rods near a perfectly repulsive wall, and show that the interfacial tension of a surface with rods on one side is lower when the surfac…
Membranes in rod solutions: a system with spontaneously broken symmetry
K. Yaman, P. Pincus, C. M. Marques
We consider a dilute solution of infinitely rigid rods near a curved, perfectly repulsive surface and study the contribution of the rod depletion layer to the bending elastic const…
Polymers in Curved Boxes
K. Yaman, P. Pincus, F. Solis +1
We apply results derived in other contexts for the spectrum of the Laplace operator in curved geometries to the study of an ideal polymer chain confined to a spherical annulus in a…