Bidirectional transport of polyelectrolytes using self-modulating entropic ratchets

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1170-1173

  Slater, Gary W ^a   Guo, Hong L ^a   Nixon, Grant I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATIONS; DNA; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROPHORESIS; ENTROPY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES;

BOND FLUCTUATION ALGORITHM; ENTROPIC RATCHETS; ENTROPIC TRAPPING; RANDOM WALKERS; STERIC INTERACTIONS;

POLYELECTROLYTES;

EID: 0031075415     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.1170     Document Type: Article

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