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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Nov 13.
Published in final edited form as: Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2005 Feb 23;71(2 Pt 1):021909. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.71.021909

FIG. 5.

FIG. 5

Force-extension characteristic for KWLC compared to WLC and rigid rod for L=4ξ and ζξ =4. At low extension, the force extension of KWLC (solid curve) approaches WLC (dashed curve) with a persistence length equal to the effective persistence length of KWLC. At high extension, the kink modes are frozen out and the KWLC force-extension characteristic approaches WLC (dotted curve) with a persistence length equal to the bend persistence length of KWLC. Rigid rod (dot dashed curve) has been plotted for comparison. The extension of rigid rod corresponds to alignment only.