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Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys
; 85(3 Pt 1): 031804, 2012 Mar.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-22587116
ABSTRACT
The phase diagram for a lattice ring polymer under applied force, with variable solvent quality, for different topological knot states, is determined for the first time. In addition to eliminating pseudophases where the polymer is flattened into a single layer, it is found that nontrivial knots result in additional pseudophases under tensile force conditions.