Directed single molecule diffusion triggered by surface energy gradients

ACS Nano

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3235-3243

  Burgos, Pierre ^a,b   Zhang, Zhenyu ^a   Golestanian, Ramin ^a   Leggett, Graham J ^a   Geoghegan, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b Harwell Science and Innovation Campus   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy; Nanopatterning; Poly(ethylene glycol); Single molecule

Indexed keywords

ADSORBED POLYMERS; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS; FLUORESCENCE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; HYDROPHILIC COMPONENTS; MOLECULAR DIFFUSION; NANOPATTERNING; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; POLYMER DIFFUSION; SINGLE MOLECULE; SINGLE-MOLECULE DIFFUSION; SINGLE-POLY; SURFACE ENERGIES; SURFACE ENERGY GRADIENTS;

DIFFUSION; ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; HYDROPHILICITY; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; MOLECULES; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; POLYETHYLENE OXIDES; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE TENSION;

SURFACE DIFFUSION;

EID: 70350627561     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn900991r     Document Type: Article

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