Ring polymers have fascinated theorists, simulators, and experimentalists as they are the
simplest polymer without ends, giving rise to important topology related properties. We …

Rotaxanes consisting of a high‐molecular‐weight axle and wheel components (macro‐
rotaxanes) have high structural freedom, and are attractive for soft‐material applications …

We have presented a systematic small angle neutron scattering investigation of ring–linear
blends, where we vary either the ring volume fraction for a given ring in a long linear matrix …

Threading is a unique topological state in linear/ring polymer blends (LRB), which is
considered to be essential for evaluating both the static and dynamic properties of ring …

We developed a single-chain slip-spring (SCSS) model applicable to entangled ring/linear
polymer blends at low ring volume fractions. The model is based on the following two …

An algorithm was developed for self-consistent field theory (SCFT) simulations of loop-
containing polymers (LCPs), where the total number of independent loops (fundamental …

Topological barriers in ring polyethylene (PE) melts of trefoil knots inhibit crystallization due
to self-entanglement, as confirmed by united atom molecular dynamics (UAMD) simulations …

To clarify the stress–strain relation of polymer networks filled with ring polymers, we
investigated randomly end-linked networks produced by a pseudo-crosslinking process of …

The flexibility of a single polymer chain, characterized by its persistence length, is
considered to be an intrinsic property of the polymer chain, which determines its …

We investigated the terminal relaxation behavior of entangled linear polystyrene L430 (with
the entanglement number Z= M/M e≃ 24, where M is the molecular weight and M e is the …