Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Author "Chakrabarti, Buddhapriya"
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Shear Unzipping of DNA
Chakrabarti, Buddhapriya; Nelson, David R. (American Chemical Society, 2009)We study theoretically the mechanical failure of a simple model of double stranded DNA under an applied shear. Starting from a more microscopic Hamiltonian that describes a sheared DNA, we arrive at a nonlinear generalization ...