Confinement induces conformational transition of semiflexible polymer rings to figure eight form

Ostermeir, Katja; Alim, Karen und Frey, Erwin (25. Juni 2010): Confinement induces conformational transition of semiflexible polymer rings to figure eight form. In: Soft matter, Bd. 6, Nr. 15: S. 3467-3471

Abstract

Employing Monte Carlo simulations of semiflexible polymer rings in weak spherical confinement a conformational transition to figure eight shaped, writhed configurations is discovered and quantified

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Publikationsform: Postprint
• Fakultät: Physik
• Themengebiete: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik > 540 Chemie
• ISSN: 1744-683X
• Sprache: Englisch