A new method for characterizing the structure of knotted polymers
ORAL
Abstract
Numerical simulations based on Monte Carlo methods often require the sampling of millions of polymer conformations. For this reason, it is hard to capture the main features that characterize polymer conformations of given energy or at a given temperature.
In this contribution a method that is able to capture the relevant properties of the structure of knotted polymer rings in a solution will be presented. This method has been already used in [1] in order to understand what are the structural changes underlying the phase transitions observed in knotted copolymer rings. Another possible application could be in determining if the knot in a circular polymer is localized or not.
In this contribution a method that is able to capture the relevant properties of the structure of knotted polymer rings in a solution will be presented. This method has been already used in [1] in order to understand what are the structural changes underlying the phase transitions observed in knotted copolymer rings. Another possible application could be in determining if the knot in a circular polymer is localized or not.
*The presented work has been carried out within the collaboration of the COST Action CA17139 (EUTOPIA) (https://cost.eu).Funding from the Polish National Science Centre under grant no. 2020/37/B/ST3/01471 is gratefully acknowledged.
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Publication: [1] Neda Abbasi Taklimi, Franco Ferrari, Marcin R. Piatek and Luca Tubiana, On the thermal properties of knotted block copolymer rings, arXiv:2209.02097.
Presenters
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Franco Ferrari
- University of Szczecin