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EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL E
Volume 37, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1140/epje/i2014-14021-6
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We investigate the wrapping conformations of a single, strongly adsorbed polymer chain on an oppositely charged nano-sphere by employing a reduced (dimensionless) representation of a primitive chain-sphere model. This enables us to determine the global behavior of the chain conformation in a wide range of values for the system parameters including the chain contour length, its linear charge density and persistence length as well as the nano-sphere charge and radius, and also the salt concentration in the bathing solution. The structural behavior of a charged chain-sphere complex can be described in terms of a few distinct conformational symmetry classes separated by continuous or discontinuous transition lines which are determined by means of appropriately defined (order) parameters. Our results can be applied to a wide class of strongly coupled polymer-sphere complexes including, for instance, complexes that comprise a mechanically flexible or semiflexible polymer chain or an extremely short or long chain and, as a special case, include the biologically relevant example of DNA-histone complexes.
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