Spontaneous unknotting of a polymer confined in a nanochannel

Nano Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 4518-4522

  Möbius, Wolfram ^a,b   Frey, Erwin ^b   Gerland, Ulrich ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; DYNAMICS; NANOFLUIDICS; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

BROWNIAN DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; COARSE-GRAINED; CONFINED POLYMERS; COUPLED DYNAMICS; EXTERNAL FORCES; KNOT SIZES; MACROSCOPIC SIZES; NANO CHANNELS; NARROW CHANNELS; PERSISTENCE LENGTHS; SEMIFLEXIBLE POLYMERS;

POLYMERS;

EID: 61749090084     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl802559q     Document Type: Article

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