Single polymer dynamics offers a powerful approach to study molecular-level interactions
and dynamic microstructure in materials. Direct visualization of single polymer chains has …

Highly branched “bottlebrush” polymers are a class of macromolecules characterized by
side chains that are densely grafted from a backbone that is typically linear. Their unique …

Ring polymers have fascinated scientists for decades, but experimental progress has been
challenging due to the presence of linear chain contaminants that fundamentally alter …

We present a comprehensive experimental rheological dataset for purified entangled ring
polystyrenes and their blends with linear chains in nonlinear shear and elongation. In …

Single molecule studies allow for the direct observation of polymer dynamics in dilute and
concentrated solutions, thereby revealing polymer chain conformations and molecular sub …

Understanding the dynamics of ring polymers is a particularly challenging yet interesting
problem in soft materials. Despite recent progress, a complete understanding of the …

Ring polymers are a unique class of macromolecules that lack free ends and show
qualitatively different dynamics compared to linear chains. Despite recent progress, the …

The behavior of unknotted and trefoil-knotted ring polymers under shear flow is here
examined by means of mesoscopic simulations. In contrast to most polymers, ring polymers …

Long molecular dynamics simulations are performed for dilute solutions of ring poly
(ethylene oxide)(PEO) molecules in matrices of linear PEO chains where we systematically …

Ring polymers exhibit unique flow properties due to their closed chain topology. Despite
recent progress, we have not yet achieved a full understanding of the nonequilibrium flow …