Conformations of Entangled Semiflexible Polymers: Entropic Trapping and Transient Non‐Equilibrium Distributions
Conformations of Entangled Semiflexible Polymers: Entropic Trapping and Transient Non‐Equilibrium Distributions
The tube model is a central concept in polymer physics, and allows one to reduce the complex many-filament problem of an entangled polymer solution to a single-filament description. We investigate the probability distribution function of conformations of confinement tubes and single encaged filaments in entangled semiflexible polymer solutions. Computer simulations …