Unified understanding of the impact of semiflexibility, concentration, and molecular weight on macromolecular-scale ring diffusion

This journal contribution is published Open Access by the publisher. Follow the DOI link to retrieve a copy of the full text. B.M. and K.S.S. are supported by the US Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering under grant number DE-SC0020858, through the Materials Research Laboratory at the UIUC. T.C.O.’ acknowledges startup funding provided by the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. This work was performed, in part, at the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, an Office of Science User Facility operated for the US DOE Office of Science. Sandia National Laboratories is a multimission laboratory managed and operated by National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Honeywell International, Inc., for the US DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration under Contract No. DE-NA-0003525. The views expressed in the paper do not necessarily represent the views of the US DOE or the US Government.,B.M., G.S.G., T.C.O., and K.S.S. designed research; B.M., G.S.G., S.L., T.C.O., and K.S.S. performed research; B.M., G.S.G., T.C.O., and K.S.S. analyzed data; and B.M., G.S.G., T.C.O., and K.S.S. wrote the paper.,The authors declare no competing interest.