Bending Rigidity of Stiff Polyelectrolyte Chains: A Single Chain and a Bundle of Multichains
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Abstract
We study the bending rigidity of highly charged stiff polyelectrolytes, for both a single chain and many chains forming a bundle. A theory is developed to account for the interplay between competitive binding of counterions and charge correlations in softening the polyelectrolyte (PE) chains. The presence of even a small concentration of multivalent counterions leads to a dramatic reduction in the bending rigidity of the chains that are nominally stiffened by the repulsion between their backbone charges. The variation of the bending rigidity as a function of f 0, the fraction of charged monomers on the chain, does not exhibit simple scaling behavior; it grows with increasing f 0 below a critical value of f 0 . Beyond the critical value, however, the chain becomes softer as f 0 increases. The bending rigidity also exhibits intriguing dependence on the concentration of multivalent counterion n 2; for highly charged PEs, the bending rigidity decreases as n 2 increases from zero, while it increases with increasing n 2 beyond a certain value of n 2 . When polyelectrolyte chains form a N -loop condensate (e.g., a toroidal bundle formed by N turns (winds) of the chain), the interloop coupling further softens the condensate, resulting in the bending free energy of the condensate that scales as N for large N .
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