Translocation of biopolymer chain through a nanopore: Coil-Helix transition

Chinese Physics Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2853-2856

  Gu, Fang ^a   Wang, Hai Jun ^a,b   Hong, Xiao Zhong ^a   Ba, Xin Wu ^a  

^a HEBEI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR MATERIALS PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMOLECULES; CHAINS; FREE ENERGY;

BIOPOLYMER CHAINS; CHAINS LENGTH; COIL-HELIX TRANSITION; CONDITION; MEAN FIRST PASSAGE TIME; SCALING BEHAVIOURS; TRANSLOCATION DYNAMICS;

NANOPORES;

EID: 49749138517     PISSN: 0256307X     EISSN: 17413540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0256-307X/25/8/033     Document Type: Article

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