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Effect of Bending Rigidity on the Knotting of a Polymer under Tension

[Image: see text] A coarse-grained computational model is used to investigate how the bending rigidity of a polymer under tension affects the formation of a trefoil knot. Thermodynamic integration techniques are applied to demonstrate that the free-energy cost of forming a knot has a minimum at nonz...

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Autores principales: Matthews, Richard, Louis, Ard A., Likos, Christos N.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Chemical Society 2012
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3560425/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23378936
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/mz300493d