Nanofishing of single polymer chains

Hiroyuki Watabe; Ken Nakajima; Toshio Nishi

Nanofishing of single polymer chains

Hiroyuki Watabe, Ken Nakajima, Toshio Nishi

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Abstract

A method, which is called as "nanofishing," enabled us to stretch a single polymer chain with picking it at its two modified termini using atomic force microscope (AFM). A stress-strain curve obtained for a polystyrene oligomer with thiol termini in a good solvent (N,N-dimethylformamide) showed a good agreement with a worm-like chain model, and thus gave microscopic information about entropic elasticity. Solvent effects on the statistical properties of single polymer chains were also investigated. Water and cyclohexane were used as poor solvent and Θ solvents, respectively.

Original language	English
Number of pages	1
Publication status	Published - 2005 Dec 1
Event	54th SPSJ Annual Meeting 2005 - Yokohama, Japan Duration: 2005 May 25 → 2005 May 27

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Other	54th SPSJ Annual Meeting 2005
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Yokohama
Period	05/5/25 → 05/5/27

Keywords

Atomic Force Microscopy
Nanofishing
Polystyrene
Single Polymer Chain

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Engineering(all)

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