This review covers the recent advances in studies of the volume phase transition and critical
phenomena of polymer gels mostly carried out in our group from 1973 to the present. We …

We review pro and contra of the hypothesis that generic polymer properties of topological
constraints are behind many aspects of chromatin folding in eukaryotic cells. For that …

The fractal globule is a compact polymer state that emerges during polymer condensation as
a result of topological constraints which prevent one region of the chain from passing across …

The dynamics of entangled flexible polymers is dominated by physics general to many
chemical systems. It is an appealing interdisciplinary field where experimental and …

Molecular dynamics simulations were conducted to investigate the structural properties of
melts of nonconcatenated ring polymers and compared to melts of linear polymers. The …

It is shown that the kinetics of collapse of a polymer coil consisting of N segments after an
abrupt decrease of temperature is a two-stage process if N>> Ne. The first stage takes a time …

The study of the conformation properties of macromolecules is at the heart of polymer
science. Essentially all physical properties of polymers are manifestations of the underlying …

We present some conjectures concerning the equilibrium statistics and dynamics of ring
polymers. We argue that unconcatenated ring polymers in the melt may have statistics …

In this review, we provide an organized summary of the theoretical and computational
results that are available for polymers subject to spatial or topological constraints. Because …

We investigate the effects of entanglement on polymer crystallization using atomistic
molecular dynamics simulations of linear and cyclic polyethylene (PE). While linear chains …