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Papers

Preprint

1. “Unified origin of negative energetic elasticity in a lattice polymer chain: soft self-repulsion and bending stiffness”
   Nobu C. Shirai, arXiv:2602.00553 doi:10.48550/arXiv.2602.00553
   

Journal Articles

1. “Universal Negative Energetic Elasticity in Polymer Chains: Crossovers among Random, Self-Avoiding, and Neighbor-Avoiding Walks”
   Nobu C. Shirai, Naoyuki Sakumichi, Phys. Rev. E 112, 025406 (2025)
   doi:10.1103/pzk3-t3s5
   
2. “Solvent-Induced Negative Energetic Elasticity in a Lattice Polymer Chain”
   Nobu C. Shirai, Naoyuki Sakumichi, Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 148101 (2023)
   doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.148101
   
3. “The interplay of intrinsic disorder and macromolecular crowding on α-synuclein fibril formation”
   Nobu C. Shirai, Macoto Kikuchi, J. Chem. Phys. 144 055101 (2016)
   doi:10.1063/1.4941054 arXiv:1411.3383
   
4. “Structural flexibility of intrinsically disordered proteins induces stepwise target recognition”
   Nobu C. Shirai, Macoto Kikuchi, J. Chem. Phys. 139 225103 (2013)
   doi:10.1063/1.4838476 arXiv:1310.0889