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Item Open Access Entropic segregation of polymers under confinement(2016) Minina, Elena; Holm, Christan (Prof. Dr.)Overlapping polymers confined in a cylinder experience strong repulsion that drives them towards segregation. This has biological relevance to chromosome segregation in single-celled elongated bacteria such as Escherichia coli because in principle, chromosomes can segregate for purely entropic reasons without any help from active mechanisms. In this thesis, we investigated entropic segregation of polymers under cylindrical confinement of infinite length where the confining cylinder is so narrow that its diameter is significantly smaller than the radius of gyration of the unconfined polymers.