Measuring flux distributions for diffusion in the small-numbers limit

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 111, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2288-2292

  Seitaridou, Effrosyni ^a   Inamdar, Mandar M ^a   Phillips, Rob ^a,b   Ghosh, Kingshuk ^c   Dill, Ken ^c  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ENTROPY; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); THEOREM PROVING;

CONCENTRATION GRADIENT; GAUSSIAN FUNCTION; JARZYNSKI'S WORK THEOREM; PICK'S LAW;

DIFFUSION;

EID: 33947389897     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp067036j     Document Type: Article

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