Propulsion of a molecular machine by asymmetric distribution of reaction products

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 22, 2005, Pages

  Golestanian, Ramin ^a   Liverpool, Tanniemola B ^b,c   Ajdari, Armand ^d  

^a ISAAC NEWTON INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES IN BASIC SCIENCES IASBS   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS MEDIA; MOLECULAR MACHINE; REACTION PRODUCTS;

EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; HYDRODYNAMICS; REACTION KINETICS;

MOLECULAR PHYSICS;

COLLOID; ENZYME; MOLECULAR MOTOR;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; KINETICS; STATISTICS;

COLLOIDS; ENZYMES; KINETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 27744589083     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.220801     Document Type: Article

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