Search Results - "Sevick, Edith M."
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Mobile Rings on a Polyrotaxane Lead to a Yield Force
Published in Macromolecules (28-05-2013)“…We examine the role of mobile rings on the stretching profile of a single polyrotaxane molecule that is tethered in space by fixing one of the rings, the…”
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Threading a Ring or Tube onto a Rod: An Entropically Rare Event
Published in Nano letters (13-01-2016)“…We calculate the entropy lost when a circular ring or a circular cylinder or tube is threaded onto a long rod in terms of the geometrical parameters, namely…”
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A Piston-Rotaxane with Two Potential Stripes: Force Transitions and Yield Stresses
Published in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) (30-10-2013)“…We examine a rod piston-rotaxane system, where the positions of several mobile rings on the axle are controlled by an external force acting on one of the…”
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Triangular cyclic rotaxanes: Size, fluctuations, and switching properties
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (18-09-2018)“…We examine one of the simplest cyclic rotaxanes—a molecule made from three rods with variable length between 0 and L. This [3]rotaxane, unlike a traditional…”
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A Two-Stroke, Two-Cylinder Piston Rotaxane Motor
Published in Chemphyschem (17-06-2016)“…We introduce a model for a rotaxane motor. This uses two major themes of rotaxane physics, that is, the ability to change the potential of different regions of…”
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A piston-rotaxane with two potential stripes: force transitions and yield stresses
Published in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) (30-10-2013)“…We examine a rod piston-rotaxane system, where the positions of several mobile rings on the axle are controlled by an external force acting on one of the…”
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Piston Rotaxane Monolayers: Shear Swelling and Nanovalve Behavior
Published in Macromolecules (14-09-2010)“…A piston-rotaxane is a rotaxane molecule where one of the free rings is attached to a rod-like polymer (the piston). We examine the behavior of a system of…”
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Collision of a field-driven polymer with a post: Electrophoresis in microlithographic arrays
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