Universal features of polymer shapes in crowded environment

TL;DR

This paper investigates how the shape of polymer chains changes in crowded environments with correlated obstacles, revealing increased asymmetry compared to pure solutions using a field-theoretical approach.

Contribution

It introduces a field-theoretical renormalization group analysis to characterize universal polymer shape features in crowded, obstacle-rich environments.

Findings

Polymer shape asymmetry increases in crowded environments.

Universal characteristics of polymer shapes are identified.

Field-theoretical methods are applied to complex environments.

Abstract

We study the universal characteristics of the shape of a polymer chain in an environment with correlated structural obstacles, applying the field-theoretical renormalization group approach. Our results qualitatively indicate an increase of the asymmetry of the polymer shape in crowded environment comparing with the pure solution case.