Unknotting of a Polymer Strand in a Melt

Macromolecules

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1674-1677

  Kim, Eung Gun ^a,b   Klein, Michael L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYMER MELTS; POLYMER STRANDS;

ALGORITHMS; CHEMICAL BONDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATIONS; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENTROPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEATION; POLYETHYLENES; PROTEINS; STRAIN; TOPOLOGY;

MACROMOLECULES;

EID: 1642619519     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma035100e     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Schlick, T.; Olson, W. K. Science 1992, 257, 1110-1115.
2. Katritch, V.; Bednar, J.; Michoud, D.; Scharein, R. G.; Dubochet, J.; Stasiak, A. Nature (London) 1996, 384, 142-145.
3. Podtelezhnikov, A. A.; Cozzarelli, N. R.; Vologodskii, A. V. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 1999, 96, 12974-12979.
4. Taylor, W. R. Nature (London) 2000, 406, 916-919.
5. Doi, M.; Edwards, S. F. The Theory of Polymer Dynamics; Oxford University Press: New York, 1986.
6. Champoux, J. J. Annu. Rev. Biochem. 2001, 70, 369-413.
7. Janse van Rensburg, E. J.; Sumners, D. A. W.; Wasserman, E.; Whittington, S. G. J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 1992, 25, 6557-6566.
8. de Gennes, P.-G. Macromolecules 1984, 17, 703-704.
9. Grosberg, A. Y.; Feigel, A.; Rabin, Y. Phys. Rev. E 1996, 54, 6618-6622.
10. Katritch, V.; Olson, W. K.; Vologodskii, A.; Dubochet, J.; Stasiak, A. Phys. Rev. E 2000, 61, 5545-5549.
11. Metzler, R.; Hanke, A.; Dommersnes, P. G.; Kantor, Y.; Kardar, M. Phys. Rev. Lett. 2002, 88, 188101.
12. Ben-Naim, E.; Daya, Z. A.; Vorobieff, P.; Ecke, R. E. Phys. Rev. Lett. 2001, 86, 1414-1417.
13. Lai, P.-Y.; Sheng, Y.-J.; Tsao, H.-K. Phys. Rev. Lett. 2001, 87, 175503.
14. Ashley, C. W. The Ashley Book of Knots; Doubleday: New York, 1993; pp 16-17.
15. Pieranski, P.; Kasas, S.; Dietler, G.; Dubochet, J.; Stasiak, A. New J. Phys. 2001, 3, 10.1-10.13.
16. Saitta, A. M.; Soper, P. D.; Wasserman, E.; Klein, M. L. Nature (London) 1999, 399, 46-48.
17. Arai, Y.; Yasuda, R.; Akashi, K.; Harada, Y.; Miyata, H.; Kinosita, K., Jr.; Itoh, H. Nature (London) 1999, 399, 446-448.
18. Martin, M. G.; Siepmann, J. I. J. Phys. Chem. B 1998, 102, 2569-2577.
19. Doruker, P.; Mattice, W. L. Macromol. Theory Simul. 1999, 8, 463-478.
20. Mattice, W. L.; Suter, U. W. Conformational Theory of Large Molecules: The Rotational Isomeric State Model in Macromolecular Systems; Wiley-Interscience: New York, 1994.
21. 5 not only because the latter is on vastly different spatial and time scales but also because the open arch embraces neighboring segments.
22. Pearson, D. S.; Ver Strate, G.; von Meerwall, B.; Schilling, F. C. Macromolecules 1987, 20, 1133-1141.
23. Folland, R.; Charlesby, A. Eur. Polym. J. 1979, 15, 953-955.
24. Farago, O.; Kantor, Y.; Kardar, M. Europhys. Lett. 2002, 60, 53-59.
25. Welch, P.; Muthukumar, M. Phys. Rev. Lett. 2001, 87, 218302.
26. Vologodskii, A. V.; Cozzarelli, N. R. Annu. Rev. Biophys. Biomol. Struct. 1994, 23, 609-643.
27. Huang, J.; Schlick, T.; Vologodskii, A. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2001, 98, 968-973.