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Entropic Interactions between Two Knots on a Semiflexible Polymer

Two knots on a string can either be separated or intertwined, and may even pass through each other. At the microscopic scale, such transitions may occur spontaneously, driven by thermal fluctuations, and can be associated with a topological free energy barrier. In this manuscript, we study the respe...

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Autores principales: Richard, David, Stalter, Stefanie, Siebert, Jonathan Tammo, Rieger, Florian, Trefz, Benjamin, Virnau, Peter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6432146/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30970734
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym9020055

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