(148j) Helical Structure from an Isotropic Homopolymer Model
AIChE Annual Meeting
2005
2005 Annual Meeting
Engineering Sciences and Fundamentals
Poster Session: Thermodynamics and Transport Properties
Monday, October 31, 2005 - 6:00pm to 8:30pm
We present Monte Carlo simulation results for a square-well homopolymer model at different bond lengths. The model only contains isotropic interactions, which under appropriate conditions the system shows spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking meaning that the chain exists either in a left- or right handed helical structure. We investigate how this behaviour depends upon the ratio between bond length and monomer radius.