8.592 - HST.452J (Spring 2022)

Statistical Physics in Biology

Lecture 12

(Please note that lecture is being recorded)


Phases of Polymers

  1. Interacting polymers:
  2. Swollen (coil) phase in good solvents
  3. Compact (globular) phase in poor solvents
  4. Frozen (folded) state of heteropolymers

(Lecture notes)


8.592  lecture- last update  2/27/22   by M. Kardar