Entanglement, Elasticity, and Viscous Relaxation of Actin Solutions

B. Hinner, M. Tempel, E. Sackmann, K. Kroy, E. Frey
1998 Physical Review Letters  
We have investigated the viscosity and the plateau modulus of actin solutions with a magnetically driven rotating disc rheometer. For entangled solutions we observed a scaling of the plateau modulus versus concentration with a power of 7/5. The measured terminal relaxation time increases with a power 3/2 as a function of polymer length. We interpret the entanglement transition and the scaling of the plateau modulus in terms of the tube model for semiflexible polymers.
doi:10.1103/physrevlett.81.2614 fatcat:dfwmgxp3gvgnxefprdyvyjap2e