This book presents the "helical wormlike chain" model a general model for both flexible and semiflexible polymer chains. It explains how statistical-mechanical, hydrodynamic, and dynamic theories of their solution properties can be developed on the basis of this model. This new second edition has been carefully updated and thoroughly revised. It includes a new chapter covering "Simulation and More on Excluded-Volume Effects," as well as the discussion of new experimental data and the application of the theory to ring polymers.
The authors provide analysis of important recent experimental...