Flatness and intrinsic curvature of linked-ring membranes

JM Polson, EJ Garcia, AR Klotz - Soft Matter, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Recent experiments have elucidated the physical properties of kinetoplasts, which are chain-
mail-like structures found in the mitochondria of trypanosome parasites formed from …

Morphology and transport properties of two-dimensional sheet polymers

ST Knauert, JF Douglas, FW Starr - Macromolecules, 2010 - ACS Publications
Whereas there has been extensive theoretical and experimental investigation of the
properties of linear polymer chains in solution, there has been far less work on sheet-like …

Dynamics of semi-flexible tethered sheets: A simulation study using stochastic rotation dynamics

SB Babu, H Stark - The European Physical Journal E, 2011 - Springer
The dynamics of a semi-flexible sheet or tethered membrane in a solvent is studied using
the method of stochastic rotation dynamics. Hydrodynamic interactions between different …

[HTML][HTML] Brownian dynamics simulations of nanosheet solutions under shear

Y Xu, MJ Green - The Journal of chemical physics, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
The flow-induced conformation dynamics of nanosheets are simulated using a Brownian
Dynamics (BD) formulation applied to a bead-rod sheetlike molecular model. This is the first …

Thermodynamics of polymer adsorption to a flexible membrane

S Karalus, W Janke, M Bachmann - … Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft …, 2011 - APS
We analyze the structural behavior of a single polymer chain grafted to an attractive, flexible
surface. Our model is composed of a coarse-grained bead-and-spring polymer and a …

Anomalous diffusion of a tethered membrane: A Monte Carlo investigation

H Popova, A Milchev - Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft …, 2008 - APS
Using a continuum bead-spring Monte Carlo model, we study the anomalous diffusion
dynamics of a self-avoiding tethered membrane by means of extensive computer …

Thermodynamics of the adsorption of flexible polymers on nanowires

T Vogel, J Gross, M Bachmann - The Journal of chemical physics, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
Generalized-ensemble simulations enable the study of complex adsorption scenarios of a
coarse-grained model polymer near an attractive nanostring, representing an ultrathin …

Chirality Effects in Molecular Chainmail

AR Klotz, CJ Anderson, MS Dimitriyev - arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.13590, 2024 - arxiv.org
Motivated by the observation of positive Gaussian curvature in kinetoplast DNA networks,
we consider the effect of linking chirality in square lattice molecular chainmail networks …

Exactly solvable flat-foldable quadrilateral origami tilings

M Assis - Physical Review E, 2018 - APS
We consider several quadrilateral origami tilings, including the Miura-ori crease pattern,
allowing for crease-reversal defects above the ground state which maintain local flat …

Particle scattering function of a two-dimensional flexible macromolecule

M Hirata - Polymer journal, 2013 - nature.com
The particle scattering function (structure factor) P (q) of a two-dimensional flexible
macromolecule (2D-FM), such as thin graphite oxide and graphene oxide, was calculated …