Excluded volume effect on confined polymer translocation through a short nanochannel

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 124, Issue 17, 2006, Pages

  Xie, Yongjun ^a   Yang, Haiyang ^a   Yu, Hongtao ^a   Shi, Qinwei ^b   Wang, Xiaoping ^b   Chen, Jie ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c Brown University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; GAUSSIAN CHAIN; TRANSLOCATIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

POLYMERS;

EID: 34547854053     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2195459     Document Type: Article

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