Jamming of Knots along a Tensioned Chain

We examine the motion of a knot along a tensioned chain whose backbone is corrugated due to excluded volume effects. At low applied tensions, the knot traverses the chain diffusively, while at higher tensions the knot makes slow, discrete hops that can be described as a Poisson process. In this “jam...

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Main Authors: Narsimhan, Vivek, Renner, Christopher Benjamin, Doyle, Patrick S
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Chemical Society (ACS) 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/107148
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7448-4202
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1687-4522

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