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Synergistic approach to probing the dynamics and mechanics of patchy soft matter
Md Mozakker H. Shojib, Asier C. Monasterio, Emanuele Locatelli +3
Tailoring microscopic details to tune bulk rheology is a key paradigm in soft matter physics, yet the vast parameter space associated with constituent interactions precludes a full…
Field-induced phase transitions in ferro-antiferromagnetic diblock copolymers
Alberto Raiola, Emanuele Locatelli, Davide Marenduzzo +1
We study the equilibrium properties of a model of magnetic diblock copolymer where each monomer is decorated with an Ising-like spin. Spins interact ferromagnetically within each b…
The effects of solvent quality and core wetting on the circularization of star polymers
Davide Breoni, Emanuele Locatelli, Luca Tubiana
We simulate the formation of cyclical arms in star polymers, focusing on the effects of solvent quality on their resulting linking complexity and gyration radius. We find that poly…
Effects of knotting on the collapse of active ring polymers
Davide Breoni, Emanuele Locatelli, Luca Tubiana
We use numerical simulations to study tangentially active flexible ring polymers with different knot topologies. Simple, unknotted active rings display a transition from an extende…
Equilibrium phases and phase transitions in multicritical magnetic polymers
Alberto Raiola, Emanuele Locatelli, Davide Marenduzzo +1
Magnetic polymers are examples of composite soft materials in which the competition between the large configurational entropy of the soft substrate (polymer) and the magnetic inter…
Fluctuations of driven probes reveal nonequilibrium transitions in complex fluids
Danilo Forastiere, Emanuele Locatelli, Gianmaria Falasco +2
Complex fluids subjected to localized microscopic energy inputs, typical of active microrheology setups, exhibit poorly understood nonequilibrium behaviors because of the intricate…
Conformation and topology of cyclical star polymers
Davide Breoni, Emanuele Locatelli, Luca Tubiana
We study the conformation and topological properties of cyclical star polymers with ring arms, each made of beads. We find that the conformational properties of unlinked cy…
Upsurge of spontaneous knotting in polar diblock active polymers
Marin Vatin, Enzo Orlandini, Emanuele Locatelli
Spontaneous formation of knots in long polymers at equilibrium is inevitable but becomes rare in sufficiently short chains. Here, we show that knotting and knot complexity increase…
Universal time and length scales of polar active polymer melts
Mattia Alberto Ubertini, Emanuele Locatelli, Angelo Rosa
We present an in-depth multi-scale analysis of the conformations and dynamics of polar active polymers, comparing very dilute and very dense conditions. We unveil characteristic le…
Conformation and dynamics of partially active linear polymers
Marin Vatin, Sumanta Kundu, Emanuele Locatelli
We perform numerical simulations of isolated, partially active polymers, driven out-of-equilibrium by a fraction of their monomers. We show that, if the active beads are all gather…
Non-Equilibrium Effects of Molecular Motors on Polymers
M. Foglino, E. Locatelli, C. A. Brackley +3
We present a generic coarse-grained model to describe molecular motors acting on polymer substrates, mimicking, for example, RNA polymerase on DNA or kinesin on microtubules. The p…