Viscoelastic properties of semiflexible filamentous bacteriophage fd
Viscoelastic properties of semiflexible filamentous bacteriophage fd
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DOI:
10.1103/physreve.62.5509
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发表时间:
2000-10-01
影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
Tang, JX
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作者:
Schmidt, FG;Hinner, B;Tang, JX
The cytoskeletal protein filament F-actin has been treated in a number of recent studies as a model physical system for semiflexible filaments. In this work, we studied the viscoelastic properties of entangled solutions of the filamentous bacteriophage fd as an alternative to F-actin with similar physical parameters. We present both microrheometric and macrorheometric measurements of the viscoelastic storage and loss moduli, G'(f) and G double prime (f), respectively, in a frequency range 0.01 < f < 4 Hz, for fd solutions in the concentration range 5 < c < 15 mg/ml. The onset of a narrow and slanted plateaulike region of G'(f) is located at around 2 Hz. The variation of the plateau modulus with concentration obeys a power law G(N)'proportional toc(1.4+/-0.3), similar to that found for entangled solutions of F-actin. In the low-frequency regime, the frequency dependence of the viscoelastic moduli can be described by power laws G'(f)proportional tof(0.9-1.2) and G double prime (f)proportional tof(0.7-0.9), which deviate significantly from the simple theoretical predictions of G'(f)proportional tof(2) and G double prime (f)proportional tof(1). The latter behavior cannot yet be understood within the framework of current theories of semiflexible filament networks. For the dynamic viscosity at the low sheer rate limit, a concentration dependence of eta (0)proportional toc(2.6) was found. Finally, a linear scaling of the terminal relaxation time with concentration, T(d)proportional toc, was observed.