Celebrating Soft Matter's 10th Anniversary: Topology matters: structure and dynamics of ring polymers

Melt Rheology of Ring Polystyrenes with Ultrahigh Purity

(2015) Yuya Doi et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Rings in random environments: sensing disorder through topology

(2015) Davide Michieletto et al.   Soft Matter

Melt of polymer rings: The decorated loop model

(2014) S. Obukhov et al.   EPL

Molecular Scale Dynamics of Large Ring Polymers

(2014) S. Gooßen et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

From a melt of rings to chromosome territories: the role of topological constraints in genome folding

(2014) Jonathan D Halverson et al.   REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS

Dynamics of self-threading ring polymers in a gel

(2014) Davide Michieletto et al.   Soft Matter

Compact structure and non-Gaussian dynamics of ring polymer melts

(2014) Ana R. Brás et al.   Soft Matter

Threading of Ring Poly(ethylene oxide) Molecules by Linear Chains in the Melt

(2014) Dimitrios G. Tsalikis et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Single-Molecule Study on Polymer Diffusion in a Melt State: Effect of Chain Topology

(2013) Satoshi Habuchi et al.   ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Comparing the results of lattice and off-lattice simulations for the melt of nonconcatenated rings

(2013) Jonathan D Halverson et al.   Journal of Physics A-Mathematical and Theoretical

Circular RNAs are a large class of animal RNAs with regulatory potency

(2013) Sebastian Memczak et al.   NATURE

Annealed lattice animal model and Flory theory for the melt of non-concatenated rings: towards the physics of crumpling

(2013) Alexander Y. Grosberg   Soft Matter

Viscosity of Ring Polymer Melts

(2013) Rossana Pasquino et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Effect of Topology on the Conformations of Ring Polymers

(2012) M. Lang et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Lattice animal model of chromosome organization

(2012) Balaji V. S. Iyer et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Rheology of Ring Polymer Melts: From Linear Contaminants to Ring-Linear Blends

(2012) Jonathan D. Halverson et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Molecular dynamics simulation study of nonconcatenated ring polymers in a melt. II. Dynamics

(2011) Jonathan D. Halverson et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Molecular dynamics simulation study of nonconcatenated ring polymers in a melt. I. Statics

(2011) Jonathan D. Halverson et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Conformation of Ring Polymers in 2D Constrained Environments

(2011) G. Witz et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Ring Polymers in Melts and Solutions: Scaling and Crossover

(2011) Takahiro Sakaue   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Anomalous Diffusion of a Polymer Chain in an Unentangled Melt

(2011) J. Farago et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Structure and dynamics of polymer rings by neutron scattering: breakdown of the Rouse model

(2011) Ana R. Brás et al.   Soft Matter

The structure factor of dense two-dimensional polymer solutions

(2010) H. Meyer et al.   COMPUTER PHYSICS COMMUNICATIONS

Melt Structure and Dynamics of Unentangled Polyethylene Rings: Rouse Theory, Atomistic Molecular Dynamics Simulation, and Comparison with the Linear Analogues

(2010) Georgia Tsolou et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Stress Relaxation in Entangled Melts of Unlinked Ring Polymers

(2010) Scott T. Milner et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Dimension of ring polymers in bulk studied by Monte-Carlo simulation and self-consistent theory

(2009) Jiro Suzuki et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Cooperative Dynamics in Homopolymer Melts: A Comparison of Theoretical Predictions with Neutron Spin Echo Experiments†

(2008) M. Zamponi et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Chain Dynamics and Viscoelastic Properties of Poly(ethylene oxide)

(2008) K. Niedzwiedz et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Floored by the rings

(2008) Tom McLeish   NATURE MATERIALS

Unexpected power-law stress relaxation of entangled ring polymers

(2008) M. Kapnistos et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Dynamics of unentangled cyclic and linear poly(oxyethylene) melts

(2008) Sunghyun Nam et al.   POLYMER

Mechanism of Threading a Polymer Through a Macrocyclic Ring

(2008) A. B. C. Deutman et al.   SCIENCE

Structure and Dynamics of Interphase Chromosomes

(2008) Angelo Rosa et al.   PLoS Computational Biology