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SUBMITTER: Gomez LR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7035624 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gómez Leopoldo R LR García Nicolás A NA Pöschel Thorsten T
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20200205 7
Unraveling the packing structure of dense assemblies of semiflexible rings is not only fundamental for the dynamical description of polymer rings, but also key to understand biopackaging, such as observed in circular DNA of viruses or genome folding. Here we use X-ray tomography to study the geometrical and topological features of disordered packings of rubber bands in a cylindrical container. Assemblies of short bands assume a liquid-like disordered structure, with short-range orientational ord ...[more]