The ever increasing computer power, together with the improved accuracy of atomistic force
fields, enables researchers to investigate biological systems at the molecular level with …

Star polymers with well-defined molecular architectures have been widely studied in the last
few decades. Of particular interest has been processing-structure-property relationships of …

In theoretical modeling of a physical system, a crucial step consists of the identification of
those degrees of freedom that enable a synthetic yet informative representation of it. While in …

Polymer brushes have witnessed extensive utilization and progress, driven by their distinct
attributes in surface modification, tethered group functionality, and tailored interactions at the …

The complex solution behavior of polymer brushes is key to control their properties,
including for biomedical applications and catalysis. The swelling behavior of poly (dimethyl …

Allosteric regulation is a widespread strategy employed by several proteins to transduce
chemical signals and perform biological functions. Metal sensor proteins are exemplary in …

We study the conformation and topological properties of cyclical star polymers with f ring
arms, each made of n beads. We find that the conformational properties of unlinked cyclical …

The phase behaviors of an ABA star polymer and nanoparticles confined in a sphere with
soft inner surface, which is grafted with homopolymer brushes have been studied by the self …

Molecular dynamics simulations were used to verify that diblock-arm star polymers (SPs)
can be accurately described using coarse-grained models. Each arm of the SPs examined …

The general treatment is proposed to investigate the explicit expressions of the average
number of subchains with definite monomer sequences on the polymer skeleton, in which …