Local polar and long-range isotropic activity assisted swelling and collapse dynamics of an active ring polymer

S Kumar, S Thakur - Macromolecules, 2023 - ACS Publications
The circular and ring structures in many synthetic or natural systems simultaneously
experience local and long-range forces. In this work, we use numerical simulations to …

Activity-driven polymer knotting for macromolecular topology engineering

JX Li, S Wu, LL Hao, QL Lei, YQ Ma - Science Advances, 2024 - science.org
Macromolecules can gain special properties by adopting knotted conformations, but
engineering knotted macromolecules is a challenging task. Here, we unexpectedly find that …

Activity-induced stiffness, entanglement network and dynamic slowdown in unentangled semidilute polymer solutions

J Li, B Zhang, ZY Wang - Soft Matter, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Active polymers possess numerous unique properties that are quite different from those
observed in the system of small active molecules due to the intricate interplay between their …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular dynamics simulations of active entangled polymers reptating through a passive mesh

AR Tejedor, R Carracedo, J Ramírez - Polymer, 2023 - Elsevier
The dynamics of active entangled chains using molecular dynamics simulations of a
modified Kremer–Grest model. The active chains are diluted in a mesh of very long passive …

Diffusiophoretic Brownian dynamics: characterization of hydrodynamic effects for an active chemoattractive polymer

S Jaiswal, M Ripoll, S Thakur - Macromolecules, 2024 - ACS Publications
The phoretic Brownian dynamics method is shown here to be an effective approach to
simulate the properties of colloidal chemophoretic based systems. The method is then …

Nonequilibrium structural and dynamic behaviors of polar active polymer controlled by head activity

JX Li, S Wu, LL Hao, QL Lei, YQ Ma - Physical Review Research, 2023 - APS
Thermodynamic behavior of polymer chains out of equilibrium is a fundamental problem in
both polymer physics and biological physics. By using molecular dynamics simulation, we …

Mitigating density fluctuations in particle-based active nematic simulations

T Kozhukhov, B Loewe, TN Shendruk - Communications Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Understanding active matter has led to new perspectives on biophysics and non-equilibrium
dynamics. However, the development of numerical tools for simulating active fluids capable …

[HTML][HTML] HTMPC: A heavily templated C++ library for large scale particle-based mesoscale hydrodynamics simulations using multiparticle collision dynamics

E Westphal, S Goh, RG Winkler, G Gompper - Computer Physics …, 2025 - Elsevier
We present HTMPC, a Heavily Templated C++ library for large-scale simulations
implementing multi-particle collision dynamics (MPC), a particle-based mesoscale …

Molecular-level insight into the low-k properties and regulatory mechanisms of polybenzoxazines

M Yuan, X Lu, SW Kuo, Z Xin - Polymer Chemistry, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The increasing demand for high signal transmission speed and low loss is attracting
research efforts to design low dielectric constant (low-k) polymers. In this paper, a novel …

Conformation and dynamics of an active filament in crowded media

R Yan, F Tan, J Wang, N Zhao - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The structural and dynamical properties of active filamentous objects under macromolecular
crowding have a great relevance in biology. By means of Brownian dynamics simulations …