Folding mechanism of a polymer chain with short-range attractions
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Folding mechanism of a polymer chain with short-range attractions.
We investigate the crystallization of a single, flexible homopolymer chain using transition path sampling. The chain consists of N identical spherical monomers evolved according to Langevin dynamics. While neighboring monomers are coupled via harmonic springs, the non-neighboring monomers interact via a hard core and a short-ranged attractive potential. For a sufficiently small interaction rang...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Chemical Physics
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0021-9606,1089-7690
DOI: 10.1063/1.4896560