What is it about?
We simulate polymer chains, that differ in how they are segmented all confined in a small spherical cavity. As the cavity is made to shrink the different polymers separate with the one with the longest stiff segments moving right to boundary.
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Why is it important?
This is part of helping us understand what confinement does to stiff polymers or filaments. It might help to understand about filament arrangement in cells/
Perspectives
The systems are simple enough to be able to compare well with analytical techniques, providing yet more perspectives.
Kristian K Müller-Nedebock
Stellenbosch University
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This page is a summary of: Entropic competition in polymeric systems under geometrical confinement, EPL (Europhysics Letters), June 2015, Institute of Physics Publishing,
DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/110/68004.
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