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Self-organization and the formation of helicoidal polymer structures

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The self-organization of three-dimensional anharmonic chains of atoms with strong interactions between nearest-neighbor atoms and various types of weak interactions between non-nearest neighbors is investigated by the method of molecular dynamics. It is observed that in all cases short helical segments form initially, causing the molecule either to evolve into a stable helicoidal structure or to collapse into a globule. It is shown that the stability of the helicoidal structure is caused by correlations among the weak interactions.

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Fiz. Tverd. Tela (St. Petersburg) 39, 1883–1888 (October 1997)

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Mel’ker, A.I., Vorob’eva, T.V. Self-organization and the formation of helicoidal polymer structures. Phys. Solid State 39, 1685–1690 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1129889

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