Ratcheted diffusion transport through crowded nanochannels

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Lappala, Anna ^a   Zaccone, Alessio ^a   Terentjev, Eugene M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84889247169     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03103     Document Type: Article

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