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Density-driven reentrant polymer transitions via saturable bridging crowders
Monmee Phukan, Hitesh Garg, Satyavani Vemparala
The paper uses coarse‑grained molecular dynamics simulations to show that the volume fraction of attractive crowders alone can drive a polymer to collapse and then re‑expand (reent…
Bridging-induced Aggregation in Neutral Polymers: Dynamics and Morphologies
Hitesh Garg, Satyavani Vemparala
Using molecular dynamics simulations, we investigate the aggregation behavior of neutral stiff (rod-like) and flexible polymer chains mediated by attractive crowders. Attractive cr…
Neutral polymer conformations with attractive bridging crowder interactions: role of crowder size
Hitesh Garg, Satyavani Vemparala
Extensive molecular dynamics simulations were conducted to explore the conformational phase diagram of a neutral polymer in the presence of attractive crowders of varying sizes. Fo…
Solvent-cosolvent attraction is sufficient to induce polymer collapse in good solvent mixtures
Hitesh Garg, Divya Nayar, Satyavani Vemparala
Cononsolvency occurs when two miscible, competing good solvents for a polymer are mixed, resulting in a loss of solubility. In this study, we demonstrate through simulations, suppo…