Polymers

Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104
USA


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Some of Our Relevant Publications

Soap Froths and Crystal Structures, P. Ziherl and Randall D. Kamien. Phys. Rev. Lett. 85 (2000) 3528.

Poisson Bracket Formulation of Nematic Polymer Dynamics, Randall D. Kamien. Phys. Rev. E 61(2000) 2888.

Polymer Shape Anisotropy and the Depletion Interaction, Mario Triantafillou and Randall D. Kamien. Phys. Rev. E 59 (1999) 5621.

Entropic Elasticity of Twist-Storing Polymers, J.D. Moroz and P. Nelson. Macromolecules 31 (1998) 6333.

Elasticity Theory of a Twisted Stack of Plates, C.S. O'Hern, Randall D. Kamien, T.C. Lubensky and Philip Nelson. Eur. Phys. J. B 1 (1998) 95.

Local Writhing Dynamics, Randall D. Kamien. Eur. Phys. J. B 1 (1998) 1.

Self-Avoiding Walks with Writhe, J. David Moroz and Randall D. Kamien. Nucl. Phys. B 506 (1997) 695.

Structure Function of Polymer Nematic Liquid Crystals: A Monte Carlo Simulation, Randall D. Kamien and Gary S. Grest. Phys. Rev. E 55 (1997) 1197.

Straightening of Thermal Fluctuations in Semi-Flexible Polymers by Applied Tension, Udo Seifert, Wolfgang Wintz and Philip Nelson. Phys. Rev. Lett. 77 (1996) 5389.

Defects in Chiral Columnar Phases: Tilt Grain Boundaries and Iterated Moiré Maps, Randall D. Kamien and David R. Nelson. Phys. Rev. E 53 (1996) 650.

Anomalous Elasticity of Polymer Cholesterics, Randall D. Kamien and John Toner. Phys. Rev. Lett. 74 (1995) 3181. -- See the poster.

Iterated Moiré Maps and Braiding of Chiral Polymer Crystals, Randall D. Kamien and David R. Nelson. Phys. Rev. Lett. 74 (1995) 2499.