Microswimmers Knead Nematics into Cholesterics journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/1…

Lego torus knot 4/3 "hands-on" doubly curved surfaces with a developable strip #lego #mathfun #torus #knot #Geometry #legosculptur

Glass Formation in Ring Polymer Melts Having Variable Knot Complexity and Molecular Mass pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

NEW DNA KNOT NANOPORE STUDY ALERT! arxiv.org/abs/2407.11567

Mechanically Interlocked Polyrotaxane Networks with Collective Motions of Multiple Main-Chain Mechanical Bonds (Xuzhou Yan and co-workers) #AngewandteVIP Shanghai Jiao Tong University onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

🪢🪢🪢🪢🪢🪢🪢🪢🪢🪢🪢🪢🪢🪢 Knots on the cover of Physics World 🪢🪢🪢🪢🪢🪢🪢🪢🪢🪢🪢🪢🪢🪢 physicsworld.com/p/magazine/arc…

I am happy to share that the last work from my PhD time is out: Universal Time and Length Scales of Polar Active Polymer Melts pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Very happy to be invited by Physics Report to give a Cassyni webinar on our recent review! An introduction to Topology in soft and biological matter presented by Luca Tubiana @[email protected] & others (see 🧵) 📅 Friday 25th Oct 2024 ⏰ 14.00 PM (Europe/Amsterdam) cassyni.com/events/W7MZqG1…

Flow in Topology is now (finally) online Chem! Lovely collaboration with Anna Slater (she/her). Functional materials and devices based on knots and links are now realistic targets without worrying about the large scale synthesis! authors.elsevier.com/a/1jzSR8jWHELG…

Reminder! Join the seminar tomorrow at 14:00 (2pm) CET!

Really enjoying this, involving Davide Michieletto and friends - fyi, for those interested in soft matter polymer topology, this new single molecule tool could really help probe knots in DNA nature.com/articles/s4146…

#OnTheCover Cascading Macrocycle and Helix Motions in a Foldarotaxane Molecular Shuttle (Frederic Coutrot and co-workers) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an… onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

Supramolecular luminescent materials based on macrocyclic arenes

DNA plectonemes are intertwined loops which form when a single DNA molecule is stretched and twisted. Plectonemes are found in bacterial and eukaryotic cells and play important role in several biochemical processes as gene expression etc... 1/5 arxiv.org/abs/2410.23145

📢📢📢 Paper alert! 📢📢📢 Our latest effort is out! "Molecular Dynamics Characterization of the Free and Encapsidated RNA2 of CCMV with the oxRNA Model", by G. Mattiotti, M. Micheloni, L. Petrolli, L. Rovigatti, L. Tubiana, S. Pasquali, R. Potestio onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ma…

For those few still on X who may care about this. "Kinetoplast DNA: a polymer physicist’s topological Olympic dream" out in Nucleic Acids Res Alex Klotz Luca Tubiana @[email protected] academic.oup.com/nar/advance-ar…

Polymers containing self-propelled monomers spontaneously form knots at much shorter lengths than in the purely passive case go.aps.org/4lQ6oIo Synopsis: go.aps.org/44Cwc4s

Volume 134, Issue 16 journals.aps.org/prl/issues/134… Cover: Knot formation, migration, and dissolution in polar active diblock copolymers journals.aps.org/prl/issues/134…

Very happy to see this work out! We propose a way to realize simple knots with high yield at the nano- and micro-scales using tangential activity and a diblock copolymer architecture. Work done at Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia DFA - UNIPD