Role of Bending Energy and Knot Chirality in Knot Distribution and Their Effective Interaction along Stretched Semiflexible Polymers

Role of Bending Energy and Knot Chirality in Knot Distribution and Their Effective Interaction along Stretched Semiflexible Polymers

Knots appear frequently in semiflexible (bio)polymers, including double-stranded DNA, and their presence can affect the polymer’s physical and functional properties. In particular, it is possible and indeed often the case that multiple knots appear on a single chain, with effects which have only com...

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Main Authors: Saeed Najafi, Rudolf Podgornik, Raffaello Potestio, Luca Tubiana
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2016-09-01
Series:Polymers
Subjects:
semiflexible polymers
dsDNA
knots
chirality
topology
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4360/8/10/347

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