Modern Applications of Flory's "Statistical Mechanics of Chain Molecules"

Alan E. Tonelli, Gary Patterson, Gary Patterson, Dacheng Wu, Yuanze Xu, Alan E. Tonelli, Jeffery L. White, Akihiro Abe, Hidemine Furuya, Kejue Jia, Benjamin R. Litterer, Robert L. Jernigan, Andrzej Kloczkowski, Ruxandra I. Dima, George Stan, Wilma K. Olson, Yuji Sasanuma, Travis Kemper, Erich Wimmer, Bruce E. Eichinge, Alan E. Tonelli, Gary Patterson, Alan E. Tonelli, Gary Patterson

• Publisher: American Chemical Society
• Year: 2020
• eBook ISBN:
  9780841298859
• Print ISBN:
  9780841298859

Table of contents

• Modern Applications of Flory’s “Statistical Mechanics of Chain Molecules”
• ACS Symposium Series1356
• Foreword
• Preface
• A Brief History of the Rotational Isomeric State Paradigm up to 1969
• Paul Flory’s “Statistical Mechanics of Chain Molecules” in China
• Polymer Macrostructures and the Kerr Effect
• Coupling Flory’s View of Conformer Populations with Solid-State NMR to Probe Intimate Mixing in Polymer Blends
• Conformational Characteristics of Polypeptide Chains with Special Focus on the α-Helix-Sense Inversion
• Broad Concepts from Polymers Applied to Protein Data
• Applications of Basic Ideas of Statistical Mechanics of Chain Molecules to Proteins. Exact Counting of Number of Conformations of Compact Chains with Volume Exclusion for Evaluation of Chain Entropies
• Computational Studies of Mechanical Remodeling of Substrate Proteins by AAA+ Biological Nanomachines
• Insights into DNA and Chromatin from Realistic Treatment of the Double Helix
• Structure-Property Relationships of Polymers, Unraveled by Molecular Orbital, RIS, and Periodic Density Functional Theory Calculations
• Depolymerization of Polymeric Sulfur
• Editors’ Biographies
• Indexes
• Author Index
• Subject Index
• Preface
• A Brief History of the Rotational Isomeric State Paradigm up to 1969
• Paul Flory’s “Statistical Mechanics of Chain Molecules” in China
• Polymer Macrostructures and the Kerr Effect
• Coupling Flory’s View of Conformer Populations with Solid-State NMR to Probe Intimate Mixing in Polymer Blends
• Conformational Characteristics of Polypeptide Chains with Special Focus on the α-Helix-Sense Inversion
• Broad Concepts from Polymers Applied to Protein Data
• Applications of Basic Ideas of Statistical Mechanics of Chain Molecules to Proteins. Exact Counting of Number of Conformations of Compact Chains with Volume Exclusion for Evaluation of Chain Entropies
• Computational Studies of Mechanical Remodeling of Substrate Proteins by AAA+ Biological Nanomachines
• Insights into DNA and Chromatin from Realistic Treatment of the Double Helix
• Structure-Property Relationships of Polymers, Unraveled by Molecular Orbital, RIS, and Periodic Density Functional Theory Calculations
• Depolymerization of Polymeric Sulfur
• Editors’ Biographies
• Indexes
• Author Index
• Subject Index