Abstract
The development of molecular models of the origins of viscoelasticity in solutions and networks of semiflexible polymers was discussed. The development was based on the use of a worm-like chain model to describe the elasticity of a single polymer or filament in solution. The model resulted in an thermal equilibrium distribution of polymer conformations in which the correlation between tangent orientation of two points on a same chain drops off exponentially with the contour distance between them.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Bioengineering Division (Publication) BED |
| Editors | R.D. Kamm, G.W. Schmid-Schoenbein, G.A. Atesian, M.S. Hefzy |
| Pages | 377 |
| Number of pages | 1 |
| Volume | 50 |
| State | Published - 2001 |
| Event | Proceedings of the 2001 Bioengineering Conference - Snowbird, UT, United States Duration: Jun 27 2001 → Jul 1 2001 |
Other
| Other | Proceedings of the 2001 Bioengineering Conference |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | Snowbird, UT |
| Period | 6/27/01 → 7/1/01 |