Metastable Knots in Confined Semiflexible Chains

We study the size distribution of spontaneous knots on semiflexible chains confined in square cross-section channels using Monte Carlo simulations. The most probable knot size, i.e. the metastable knot size, is found to vary nonmonotonically with the channel size. In the case of weak confinement, th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Dai, Liang, Renner, C. Benjamin, Doyle, Patrick S.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Chemical Society (ACS) 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/101173
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1687-4522