Peter Virnau

Polymer Knots in Thin Slit-Confined Melts: Thickness Dependence, Local Effects, and Stiffness

Abstract We study how confinement affects topology and conformations in flexible and semiflexible slit-confined polymer melts of varying thickness h. The knotting probability exhibits a maximum at intermediate thicknesses near the bulk radius of gyration h ≈ Rg,bulk, vanishes at...