Communications Materials (Feb 2020)

Hydrodynamic inflation of ring polymers under shear

  • Maximilian Liebetreu,
  • Christos N. Likos

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43246-019-0006-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 1, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Ring polymers are known to display a variety of unusual dynamical behavior due to their topology. Here, simulations reveal that ring polymers under shear flow exhibit a swelling of the ring, causing them to behave as non-Brownian particles.