Understanding how chromatin is spatially and dynamically organized in the nucleus of
eukaryotic cells and how this affects genome functions is one of the main challenges of cell …

Biological semiflexible polymers and filaments such as collagen, fibronectin, actin,
microtubules, coiled-coil proteins, DNA, siRNA, amyloid fibrils, etc., are ubiquitous in nature …

The internal design of DNA nanostructures defines how they behave in different
environmental conditions, such as endonuclease‐rich or low‐Mg2+ solutions. Notably, the …

The persistence length of macromolecules is one of their basic characteristics, describing
their intrinsic local stiffness. However, it is difficult to extract this length from physical …

Abstract By large-scale Monte Carlo simulations of semiflexible polymers in d= 2 dimensions
the applicability of the Kratky-Porod model is tested. This model is widely used as" standard …

The adsorption transition and the structure of semiflexible adsorbed macromolecules are
studied by a molecular dynamics simulation of a coarse-grained, bead-spring type model …

We present a unified scaling description for the dynamics of monomers of a semiflexible
chain under good solvent condition in the free draining limit. We consider both the cases …

Conformations of partially or fully adsorbed semiflexible polymer chains are studied varying
both contour length L, chain stiffness, κ, and the strength of the adsorption potential over a …

The conformations of semiflexible polymers in two dimensions confined in a strip of width D
are studied by computer simulations, investigating two different models for the mechanism …

Single molecules of poly (vinyl amine) are analyzed in the adsorbed state by atomic force
microscopy (AFM) in two different ways. First, high-resolution images of individual adsorbed …