The chain sucker: Translocation dynamics of a polymer chain into a long narrow channel driven by longitudinal flow

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 134, Issue 13, 2011, Pages

  Luo, Kaifu ^a   Metzler, Ralf ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; CHANNEL ENTRANCES; CHANNEL WIDTHS; DRIVING FORCES; LANGEVIN DYNAMICS; NARROW CHANNEL; POLYMER CHAINS; POLYMER TRANSLOCATION; SINGLE SEGMENTS; STEADY STATE; TRANSLOCATION DYNAMICS; TRANSLOCATION PROCESS; TWO-DIMENSION; WAITING TIME DISTRIBUTIONS; WAITING-TIME;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

MONOMERS;

POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MICROFLUIDICS; MOTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MICROFLUIDICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOTION; POLYMERS;

EID: 79954495521     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3575239     Document Type: Article

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