Sevick, Edith MWilliams, David2015-12-101420-3049http://hdl.handle.net/1885/62606We examine a rod piston-rotaxane system, where the positions of several mobile rings on the axle are controlled by an external force acting on one of the rings. This allows us to access the translational entropy of the rings. For a simple rotaxane moleculAuthor/s retain copyrightA piston-rotaxane with two potential stripes: force transitions and yield stresses201310.3390//molecules1811133982015-12-10