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Variety of Scaling Laws for DNA Thermal Denaturation
Yulian Honchar, Christian von Ferber, Yurij Holovatch
We discuss possible mechanisms that may impact the order of the transition between denaturated and bound DNA states and lead to changes in the scaling laws that govern conformation…
Universal shape characteristics for the mesoscopic star-shaped polymer via dissipative particle dynamics simulations
O. Kalyuzhnyi, J. M. Ilnytskyi, Yu. Holovatch +1
In this paper we study the shape characteristics of star-like polymers in various solvent quality using a mesoscopic level of modeling. The dissipative particle dynamics simulation…
Universal shape characteristics for the mesoscopic polymer chain via dissipative particle dynamics
Ostap Kalyuzhnyi, Jaroslav Ilnytskyi, Yurij Holovatch +1
In this paper we study the shape characteristics of a polymer chain in a good solvent using a mesoscopic level of modelling. The dissipative particle dynamics simulations are perfo…
Disorder effects on the static scattering function of star branched polymers
V. Blavatska, C. von Ferber, Yu. Holovatch
We present an analysis of the impact of structural disorder on the static scattering function of f-armed star branched polymers in d dimensions. To this end, we consider the model…
Shapes of macromolecules in good solvents: field theoretical renormalization group approach
V. Blavatska, C. von Ferber, Yu. Holovatch
In this paper, we show how the method of field theoretical renormalization group may be used to analyze universal shape properties of long polymer chains in porous environment. So…
Star copolymers in porous environments: scaling and its manifestations
Viktoria Blavatska, Christian von Ferber, Yurij Holovatch
We consider star polymers, consisting of two different polymer species, in a solvent subject to quenched correlated structural obstacles. We assume that the disorder is correlated…
Universal features of polymer shapes in crowded environment
Viktoria Blavatska, Christian von Ferber, Yurij Holovatch
We study the universal characteristics of the shape of a polymer chain in an environment with correlated structural obstacles, applying the field-theoretical renormalization group…
Scaling of complex polymers: new universality classes and beyond
V. Blavatska, C. von Ferber, Yu. Holovatch
We analyse scaling laws that govern macromolecules of different topology: polymer chains, homogeneous and miktoarm star polymers in a good solvent possibly constrained by a porous…
How does the scaling for the polymer chain in the dissipative particle dynamics hold?
J. M. Ilnytskyi, Yu. Holovatch
We performed a series of simulations for a linear polymer chain in a solvent using dissipative particle dynamics to check the scaling relations for the end-to-end distance, radius…
Star polymers in correlated disorder
V. Blavats'ka, C. von Ferber, Yu. Holovatch
We analyze the impact of a porous medium (structural disorder) on the scaling of the partition function of a star polymer immersed in a good solvent. We show that corresponding sca…
Entropy-induced separation of star polymers in porous media
V. Blavats'ka, C. von Ferber, Yu. Holovatch
We present a quantitative picture of the separation of star polymers in a solution where part of the volume is influenced by a porous medium. To this end, we study the impact of lo…
Scaling of star polymers: high order results
V. Schulte-Frohlinde, Yu. Holovatch, C. von Ferber +1
We extend existing renormalization group calculations for the exponents describing scaling of star polymers and polymer networks constituted by chains of different species (the so-…
Two-dimensional Copolymers and Multifractality: Comparing Perturbative Expansions, MC Simulations, and Exact Results
Christian von Ferber, Yurij Holovatch
We analyze the scaling laws for a set of two different species of long flexible polymer chains joined together at one of their extremities (copolymer stars) in space dimension D=2.…
Scaling exponents of star polymers
Christian von Ferber, Yurij Holovatch
We review recent results of the field theoretical renormalization group analysis on the scaling properties of star polymers. We give a brief account of how the numerical values of…
Polymers in long-range-correlated disorder
Victoria Blavats'ka, Christian von Ferber, Yurij Holovatch
We study the scaling properties of polymers in a d-dimensional medium with quenched defects that have power law correlations ~r^{-a} for large separations r. This type of disorder…
Materials of the round table ``Phase transitions and critical phenomena: past, present, and future"
A. Bakai, A. Ciach, A. Chalyi +7
The paper contains materials of the discussion concerning phase transitions and critical phenomena which took place during the Workshop on modern problems of soft matter theory (Au…
Colloids with polymer stars: The interaction
Christian von Ferber, Yurij Holovatch, Arben Jusufi +3
We derive the short distance interaction of star polymers in a colloidal solution. We calculate the corresponding force between two stars with arbitrary numbers of legs f_1 and f_2…
Diffusion-controlled reactions in presence of polymers
Christian von Ferber, Yurij Holovatch
We study the properties of diffusion controlled reactions with traps or reaction sites attached to polymer chains or to a star polymer. Using a field theoretical renormalization gr…
Copolymer Networks and Stars: Scaling Exponents
Christian von Ferber, Yurij Holovatch
We explore and calculate the rich scaling behavior of copolymer networks in solution by renormalization group methods. We establish a field theoretic description in terms of compos…