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Paper   IPM / Physic / 6921
School of Physics
  Title:   Radial Distribution Function of Rod-Like Polyelectrolytes
  Author(s): 
1.  R. Golestanian
2.  R. Zandi
3.  J. Rudnick
  Status:   Published
  Journal: Eur. Phys. J. E
  No.:  121
  Vol.:  9
  Year:  2002
  Pages:   41-46
  Supported by:  IPM
  Abstract:
We study the effect of electrostatic interactions on the distribution function of the end-to-end distance of a single polyelectrolyte chain in a rodlike configuration. We investigate the validity of the concept of electrostatic persistence length for uniformly charged wormlike chains for both screened and unscreened Coulomb interactions. We find that the distribution function of a polyelectrolyte often differs significantly from the distribution function of a wormlike chain.

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