Stretched polymers: single-stranded DNA

Seminar
Speaker
Prof. Fyl Pincus, Departments of Physics and Materials Science, UC Santa Barbara
Date
12/11/2012 - 12:30Add to Calendar 2012-11-12 12:30:00 2012-11-12 12:30:00 Stretched polymers: single-stranded DNA Magnetic tweezer studies of the force-elongation of single stranded DNA at various salt concentrations by the Saleh group at UCSB have discovered several distinct scaling regimes.  At relatively high forces, an unusual behavior is observed where L is the end-to-end length and f is the applied force.  I shall review our understanding of these scaling properties with a speculation concerning the logarithmic behavior in analogy to one dimensional ferromagnets. Room 301, Physics Bld. 202 Department of Physics physics.dept@mail.biu.ac.il Asia/Jerusalem public
Place
Room 301, Physics Bld. 202
Abstract

Magnetic tweezer studies of the force-elongation of single stranded DNA at various salt concentrations by the Saleh group at UCSB have discovered several distinct scaling regimes.  At relatively high forces, an unusual behavior is observed where L is the end-to-end length and f is the applied force.  I shall review our understanding of these scaling properties with a speculation concerning the logarithmic behavior in analogy to one dimensional ferromagnets.

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