3 papers
cond-mat.soft2026
Polymer Knots in Thin Films: Thickness Dependence, Local Effects, and Stiffness
Maurice P. Schmitt, Hendrik Meyer, Peter Virnau
We study how confinement affects topology and conformations in polymer films of varying thickness . The knotting probability exhibits a maximum at intermediate thicknesses near…
cond-mat.soft2024
Effect of simple shear on knotted polymer coils and globules
Andrey Milchev, Maurice P. Schmitt, Peter Virnau
We explore the effect of Couette flow on knotted linear polymer chains with extensive Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations. Hydrodynamic interactions are accounted for by means of M…
cond-mat.soft2024
Topological comparison of flexible and semiflexible chains in polymer melts with -chains
Maurice P. Schmitt, Sarah Wettermann, Kostas Ch. Daoulas +2
A central paradigm of polymer physics states that chains in melts behave like random walks as intra- and interchain interactions effectively cancel each other out. Likewise, -c…