A new twist in a tangled story
August 21, 2026
August 21, 2026
TRIESTE, Italy, Aug. 21 -- The International School for Advanced Studies (Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati) posted the following news:
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A new twist in a tangled story
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Long polymer chains are everywhere: in synthetic materials, soft matter, biological systems such as chromosomes, and mathematical models of filaments and knots. When many such chains are densely packed, they form what physicists call a polymer melt. In this . . .
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A new twist in a tangled story
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Long polymer chains are everywhere: in synthetic materials, soft matter, biological systems such as chromosomes, and mathematical models of filaments and knots. When many such chains are densely packed, they form what physicists call a polymer melt. In this . . .