Cascade of Transitions of Polyeletrolytes in Poor Solvent

Andrey V. Dobrynin, Sergei Obukhov, Michael Rubinstein



Typical configurations of a freely joined charged chain with N=200 monomers interacting via Coulomb and Lennard-Jones potential at three different (renormalized) charge densities:

a) Spherical globule for f=0.0

b) Dumpbbell for f=0.1

c) Necklace with three beads for f=0.2