Propiedades elásticas de las cadenas de amilosa simple en el agua: un estudio de mecánica cuántica y AFM

Zhenyu Lu1, Wieslaw Nowak, Gwangrog Lee

  • 1Department of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA.

Resumen

El polisacárido amilosa exhibe una elasticidad inusual debido a las transiciones de anillo inducidas por la fuerza, no un simple comportamiento de resorte entrópico. Las simulaciones mecánicas cuánticas y la microscopía de fuerza atómica (AFM) revelan la mecánica subyacente de su extensibilidad.

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