Geometric properties of crumpled wires and the condensed non-solid packing state of very long molecular chains
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Resumo: | Geometric aspects associated with the hierarchical and heterogeneous packing of crumpled wires are reviewed. The recently discovered phenomenon of condensation of elastic energy of curvature in these structures is discussed, and new results are presented with emphasis on robust scaling laws. It is examined the possible relevance of these laws in the conformational properties of long molecular chains densely packaged in a non-solid state, as e.g. in the packing of DNA strands in chromosomes, or in virus capsids. In particular, mean field arguments are used to estimate the dependence of the number of loops in the dense non-solid packed three-dimensional configurations of a very long polymer strand as a function of the number of monomers or the chain length. |
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Geometric properties of crumpled wires and the condensed non-solid packing state of very long molecular chainscrumpled wirescale invarianceDNA packingGeometric aspects associated with the hierarchical and heterogeneous packing of crumpled wires are reviewed. The recently discovered phenomenon of condensation of elastic energy of curvature in these structures is discussed, and new results are presented with emphasis on robust scaling laws. It is examined the possible relevance of these laws in the conformational properties of long molecular chains densely packaged in a non-solid state, as e.g. in the packing of DNA strands in chromosomes, or in virus capsids. In particular, mean field arguments are used to estimate the dependence of the number of loops in the dense non-solid packed three-dimensional configurations of a very long polymer strand as a function of the number of monomers or the chain length.Sociedade Brasileira de Química2008-01-01info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersiontext/htmlhttp://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-50532008000200014Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society v.19 n.2 2008reponame:Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society (Online)instname:Sociedade Brasileira de Química (SBQ)instacron:SBQ10.1590/S0103-50532008000200014info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessGomes,Marcelo A. F.Brito,Valdemiro P.Araújo,Maycon S.eng2008-04-08T00:00:00Zoai:scielo:S0103-50532008000200014Revistahttp://jbcs.sbq.org.brONGhttps://old.scielo.br/oai/scielo-oai.php||office@jbcs.sbq.org.br1678-47900103-5053opendoar:2008-04-08T00:00Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society (Online) - Sociedade Brasileira de Química (SBQ)false |
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Geometric properties of crumpled wires and the condensed non-solid packing state of very long molecular chains |
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Geometric properties of crumpled wires and the condensed non-solid packing state of very long molecular chains |
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Geometric properties of crumpled wires and the condensed non-solid packing state of very long molecular chains Gomes,Marcelo A. F. crumpled wire scale invariance DNA packing |
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Geometric properties of crumpled wires and the condensed non-solid packing state of very long molecular chains |
title_full |
Geometric properties of crumpled wires and the condensed non-solid packing state of very long molecular chains |
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Geometric properties of crumpled wires and the condensed non-solid packing state of very long molecular chains |
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Geometric properties of crumpled wires and the condensed non-solid packing state of very long molecular chains |
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Geometric properties of crumpled wires and the condensed non-solid packing state of very long molecular chains |
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Gomes,Marcelo A. F. |
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Gomes,Marcelo A. F. Brito,Valdemiro P. Araújo,Maycon S. |
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Brito,Valdemiro P. Araújo,Maycon S. |
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Gomes,Marcelo A. F. Brito,Valdemiro P. Araújo,Maycon S. |
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crumpled wire scale invariance DNA packing |
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crumpled wire scale invariance DNA packing |
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Geometric aspects associated with the hierarchical and heterogeneous packing of crumpled wires are reviewed. The recently discovered phenomenon of condensation of elastic energy of curvature in these structures is discussed, and new results are presented with emphasis on robust scaling laws. It is examined the possible relevance of these laws in the conformational properties of long molecular chains densely packaged in a non-solid state, as e.g. in the packing of DNA strands in chromosomes, or in virus capsids. In particular, mean field arguments are used to estimate the dependence of the number of loops in the dense non-solid packed three-dimensional configurations of a very long polymer strand as a function of the number of monomers or the chain length. |
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