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The confinement free energies of non-ideal branched polymers and ideal unbranched polymers are the same
Rouzbeh Ghafouri, Joseph Rudnick, Robijn Bruinsma
We use the method of dimensional reduction to show that a branching polymer with excluded volume interaction confined between two flat plates has, in the thermodynamic limit, a con…
Nucleosome Switching
David J. Schwab, Robijn F. Bruinsma, Joseph Rudnick +1
We present a statistical-mechanical analysis of the positioning of nucleosomes along one of the chromosomes of yeast DNA as a function of the strength of the binding potential and…
Melting of Branched RNA Molecules
Ralf Bundschuh, Robijn Bruinsma
Stability of the branching structure of an RNA molecule is an important condition for its function. In this letter we show that the melting thermodynamics of RNA molecules is very…
Chirality and Equilibrium Biopolymer Bundles
Gregory M. Grason, Robijn F. Bruinsma
We use continuum theory to show that chirality is a key thermodynamic control parameter for the aggregation of biopolymers: chirality produces a stable disperse phase of hexagonal…
Phase Diagram of Chiral Biopolymer Wigner Crystals
Gregory M. Grason, Robijn F. Bruinsma
We study the statistical mechanics of counterion Wigner crystals associated with hexagonal bundles of chiral biopolymers. We show that, due to spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking…