We review pro and contra of the hypothesis that generic polymer properties of topological
constraints are behind many aspects of chromatin folding in eukaryotic cells. For that …

Metropolis Monte Carlo has been employed with remarkable success over the years to
simulate the dense phases of polymer systems. Owing, in particular, to the freedom it …

Molecular dynamics simulations were conducted to investigate the structural properties of
melts of nonconcatenated ring polymers and compared to melts of linear polymers. The …

The study of the conformation properties of macromolecules is at the heart of polymer
science. Essentially all physical properties of polymers are manifestations of the underlying …

Ring polymers remain a challenge to our understanding of polymer dynamics. Experiments
are difficult to interpret because of the uncertainty in the purity and dispersity of the sample …

The conformational statistics of ring polymers in melts or dense solutions is strongly affected
by their quenched microscopic topological state. The effect is particularly strong for …

Ring polymers have fascinated theorists, simulators, and experimentalists as they are the
simplest polymer without ends, giving rise to important topology related properties. We …

A Flory theory is constructed for a long polymer ring in a melt of unknotted and non-
concatenated rings. The theory assumes that the ring forms an effective annealed branched …

Atomistic configurations of model unentangled ring polyethylene (PE) melts ranging in chain
length from C24 up to C400 have been subjected to detailed molecular dynamics (MD) …

Unconcatenated ring polymers in concentrated solutions and melt are remarkably well
described as double-folded conformations on randomly branched primitive trees. This …