Barbosa, Marcia C.; Levin, Yan - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 231 (1996) 4, pp. 467-483
The behavior of a neutral polyampholyte, PA, chain with N monomers is analyzed in the framework of Flory's affine network theory of rubber elasticity. The PA chain, in addition to the neutral monomers, also contains an equal number of positively and negatively charged monomers. In order to...