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SUBMITTER: Smrek J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6946665 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20200107 1
The glass transition in soft matter systems is generally triggered by an increase in packing fraction or a decrease in temperature. It has been conjectured that the internal topology of the constituent particles, such as polymers, can cause glassiness too. However, the conjecture relies on immobilizing a fraction of the particles and is therefore difficult to fulfill experimentally. Here we show that in dense solutions of circular polymers containing (active) segments of increased mobility, the ...[more]