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 …

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

Polymer materials are multiscale systems by definition. Already the description of a single
macromolecule involves a multitude of scales, and cooperative processes in polymer …

We give an extended review of recent numerical and analytical studies on semiflexible
chains near surfaces undertaken at Institut Charles Sadron (sometimes in collaboration) with …

The gel point of end-linked model networks is determined from computer simulation data. It
is shown that the difference between the true gel point conversion, pc, and the ideal mean …

The combination of ring closure and spatial constraints has a fundamental effect on the
statistics of semiflexible polymers such as DNA. However, studies of the interplay between …

The structure of two-dimensional polymer chains in a solvent at different temperatures is still
far from being fully understood. Computer simulations of high-density macromolecular …

Polymer behaviors at interfaces or in narrowly confined systems have important implications
in a variety of practical applications, including polymer processing, polymer films, adhesion …

We present a detailed analysis of the rheological behavior of entangled short-chain-
branched (SCB) ring polymers at interfaces via direct comparison with the corresponding …

We present the general structural and dynamical characteristics of flexible ring polymers in
narrowly confined two-dimensional (2D) melt systems using atomistic molecular dynamics …