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José García de la Torre1, D Amorós, A Ortega
1Departamento de Química Física, Facultad de Química, Universidad de Murcia, 30071 Murcia, Spain. jgt@um.es
Abstract:
The calculation of the intrinsic viscosity by means of classical treatments of bead models, typically composed of a number of identical beads, presents some problems when applied to models where the beads are unequal and their number is not very large. A correction to this problem was proposed 10 years ago (García de la Torre and Carrasco in Eur Biophys J 27:549-557, 1998). This so-called volume correction, which consisted of adding a term proportional to the volume of the model, was proved to be rigorous in physico-mathematical terms, and produced improved results in some circumstances, but not always. Recently, the volume correction is being reconsidered so that with some deduced or empirical modifications, it can allow for safer predictions of the intrinsic viscosity. This paper contributes a discussion and further improvements of that correction for the intrinsic viscosity.
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