Geometry and topology of knotted ring polymers in an array of obstacles

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Orlandini, Enzo ^a   Stella, Attilio L ^a   Vanderzande, Carlo ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; INTERMEDIATE REGIMES; KNOTTED POLYMERS; KNOTTED RING POLYMERS; RADIUS OF GYRATION;

ELECTROPHORESIS; GELS; TOPOLOGY;

POLYMERS;

EID: 78651412026     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.82.050804     Document Type: Article

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