Effects of alignment activity on the collapse kinetics of a flexible polymer

• Published in: Soft matter Vol. 18; no. 1; pp. 1978 - 199
• Main Authors: Paul, Subhajit, Majumder, Suman, Das, Subir K, Janke, Wolfhard
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Royal Society of Chemistry 09.03.2022
• Subjects: Alignment; Beads; Coils; Elongated structure; Filaments; High temperature; Kinetics; Low temperature; Molecular dynamics; Polymers; Scaling laws

The dynamics of various biological filaments can be understood within the framework of active polymer models. Here we consider a bead-spring model for a flexible polymer chain in which the active interaction among the beads is introduced via an alignment rule adapted from the Vicsek model. Following...