Designing nanomachines: A theoretical and computational approach

Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1783-1799

  Bakalis, Evangelos ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN MACEDONIA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Markovian stochastic model; Molecular nanostructures; Non equilibrium systems; Transport processes

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH; CONSTANT TEMPERATURE; DIRECTIONAL MOTION; DISCRETE SPACES; DYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS; INTERACTION POTENTIALS; MARKOVIAN; MARKOVIAN STOCHASTIC MODEL; MOLECULAR MOTORS; MOLECULAR NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOMACHINES; NON EQUILIBRIUM SYSTEMS; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

NANOSTRUCTURES; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 77955701992     PISSN: 15461955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1166/jctn.2010.1543     Document Type: Article

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