Polymer solutions are frequently used in enhanced oil recovery and groundwater
remediation to improve the recovery of trapped nonaqueous fluids. However, applications …

Single polymer dynamics offers a powerful approach to study molecular-level interactions
and dynamic microstructure in materials. Direct visualization of single polymer chains has …

The field of microrheology is concerned with how materials store and dissipate mechanical
energy as a function of length scale. Recent developments in the theory and instrumentation …

The development and growth of microfluidics has stimulated interest in the behaviour of
complex liquids in micro-scale geometries and provided a rich platform for rheometric …

Within the last decade, fluorescence microscopy of single molecules of DNA in a plethora of
flow fields has allowed an unprecedented examination of the dynamics of polymers in flow …

We present a fully parametrized bead–spring chain model for stained λ-phage DNA. The
model accounts for the finite extensibility of the molecule, excluded volume effects, and …

The properties of semidilute polymer solutions are investigated at equilibrium and under
shear flow by mesoscale simulations, which combine molecular dynamics simulations and …

The efficiency and robustness of various numerical schemes have been evaluated by
performing Brownian dynamics simulations of bead-rod and three popular nonlinear bead …

The conformational changes imparted on single, flexible DNA polymers by a steady, simple
shear flow were directly visualized in the flow-gradient plane. Two fluorescently stained DNA …

Intramolecular hydrodynamic interactions (HI) in flexible polymer chains influence both the
equilibrium and nonequilibrium physical properties of macromoecules. In this work, we …