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20132026
most citedSpontaneous knotting and unknotting of flexible linear polymers: equilibrium and kinetic aspects

86 citations · 139 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cond-mat.soft2026

On the thermal properties of knotted block copolymer rings

Neda Abbasi Taklimi, Franco Ferrari, Marcin R. Piątek +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

Organisation and dynamics of individual DNA segments in topologically complex genomes

Saminathan Ramakrishnan, Auro Varat Patnaik, Guglielmo Grillo +2

Capturing the physical organisation and dynamics of genomic regions is one of the major open challenges in biology. The kinetoplast DNA (kDNA) is a topologically complex genome, ma…

cond-mat.soft2024

A contact map method to capture the features of knot conformations

Neda Abbasi Taklimi, Franco Ferrari, Marcin Radosław Piątek +1

Inspired by recent advances in the chromosome capture techniques, a method is proposed to study the structural organization of systems of polymers rings with topological constraint…

cond-mat.soft2023

Single-Molecule Morphology of Topologically Digested Olympic Networks

Saminathan Ramakrishnan, Zihao Chen, Yair Augusto Gutierrez Fosado +5

The kinetoplast DNA (kDNA) is the archetype of a two-dimensional Olympic network, composed of thousands of DNA minicircles and found in the mitochondrion of certain parasites. The…

physics.soc-ph2023

Emergent circulation patterns from anonymized mobility data: Clustering Italy in the time of Covid

Jules Morand, Shoichi Yip, Yannis Velegrakis +3

Using anonymized mobility data from Facebook users and publicly available information on the Italian population, we model the circulation of people in Italy before and during the e…

physics.bio-ph2023★ 8 cited

Scaling properties of RNA as a randomly branching polymer

Domen Vaupotič, Angelo Rosa, Luca Tubiana +1

Formation of base pairs between the nucleotides of an RNA sequence gives rise to a complex and often highly branched RNA structure. While numerous studies have demonstrated the fun…