Polymer translocation induced by a bad solvent

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Lörscher, Christopher ^a   Ala Nissila, Tapio ^b,c   Bhattacharya, Aniket ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAD-SPRING MODELS; CONFORMATIONAL DIFFERENCES; DIFFERENT SOLVENTS; LANGEVIN DYNAMICS; LONG CHAINS; MEAN FIRST PASSAGE TIME; POLYMER TRANSLOCATION; SIMULATION RESULT; THEORETICAL PREDICTION; THREE DIMENSIONS; TRANS SIDE; TRANSLOCATION PROCESS;

POLYMERS;

SOLVENTS;

EID: 79951695349     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.83.011914     Document Type: Article

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