3 papers
cond-mat.soft2026
SPOCK*: A simple program for simulating knotted and concatenated polymer rings off-lattice
Franco Ferrari, Marcin R. PiÄ tek
The purpose of this work is to present SPOCK*, a Monte Carlo code specifically written to investigate the thermodynamic and mechanical properties of polymers in the presence of top…
cond-mat.soft2026
On the thermal properties of knotted block copolymer rings
Neda Abbasi Taklimi, Franco Ferrari, Marcin R. PiÄ tek +1
We investigate the thermal and structural properties of knotted diblock copolymer rings using a coarse-grained lattice model in an implicit solvent. The system is studied by means…
cond-mat.soft2025
Single [2]catenanes in solution forming -plats: a combined field theoretical and numerical approach
Franco Ferrari, Marcin R. PiÄ tek
The statistical mechanics of [2]catenanes in a solution with constrained number of maxima and minima along a special direction (the height) is discussed. The interest in this syste…