▪ Abstract Toroidal DNA condensates have attracted the attention of biophysicists,
biochemists, and polymer physicists for more than thirty years. In the biological community …

The unconstrained genomic DNA of bacteria forms a coil, whose volume exceeds 1000
times the volume of the cell. Since prokaryotes lack a membrane-bound nucleus, in sharp …

The process of DNA condensation into nanometer-scale particles has direct relevance to
several fields, including cell biology, virology, and gene delivery for therapeutic purposes …

Flexible polymers such as long DNA, RNA molecules, and proteins, can pass through a
narrow pore whose size is comparable to their molecular thickness. We highlight the …

Understanding the solution-phase behaviour of organic semiconducting polymers is
important for systematically improving the performance of devices based on solution …

We investigate the dynamics and pathways of the collapse of a single, semiflexible polymer
in a poor solvent via three-dimensional Brownian Dynamics simulations. An example of this …

While applying computer simulations to study semiflexible polymers, it is a primary task to
determine the persistence length that characterizes the chain stiffness. One frequently asked …

Higher-order architectures of chromosomes play important roles in the regulation of genome
functions. To understand the molecular mechanism of genome packing, an in vitro chromatin …

It is well known that multivalent cations cause free DNA in solution to condense into
nanometer-scale particles with toroidal and rod-like morphologies. However, it has not been …

We report the fibril formation of poly (d-glucose carbonate)(PGC)-based amphiphilic diblock
copolymers using solution assembly. Unlike conventional cylindrical micelles constructed …