Entropy driven unidirectional motion of Brownian particle inside a three-dimensional tube

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 114, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 3325-3329

  Sheu, Sheh Yi ^a   Yang, Dah Yen ^b  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b ACADEMIA SINICA   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; IONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

ION CHANNELS; TWO-GATE BLOBS;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT;

EID: 0035249498     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1342034     Document Type: Article

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