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

Ostermeir, Katja; Alim, Karen und Frey, Erwin (25. June 2010): Confinement induces conformational transition of semiflexible polymer rings to figure eight form. In: Soft matter, Vol. 6, No. 15: pp. 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

• Item Type: Journal article
• Form of publication: Postprint
• Faculties: Physics
• Subjects: 500 Science > 540 Chemistry
• ISSN: 1744-683X
• Language: English