Abstract
We have investigated the viscosity and the plateau modulus of actin solutions with a magnetically driven rotating disk rheometer. For entangled solutions we observed a scaling of the plateau modulus versus concentration with a power of 7/5. The measured terminal relaxation time increases with a power 3/2 as a function of polymer length. We interpret the entanglement transition and the scaling of the plateau modulus in terms of the tube model for semiflexible polymers.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2614-2617 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Physical Review Letters |
| Volume | 81 |
| Issue number | 12 |
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| State | Published - 21 Sep 1998 |