Modeling thermophoretic effects in solid-state nanopores

Journal of Computational Electronics

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 826-838

  Belkin, Maxim ^a   Chao, Shu Han ^b   Giannetti, Gino ^b   Aksimentiev, Aleksei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary driven MD; Molecular dynamics; Nanofluidics; Non equilibrium MD; Plasmonic heating; Soret coefficient; Thermodiffusion; Thermophoresis

Indexed keywords

BIOMOLECULES; DNA; HYDROGELS; MODULATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOFLUIDICS; PLASMONS; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL GRADIENTS; THERMOPHORESIS;

ELECTROPHORETIC MOTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS METHODS; NON EQUILIBRIUM; NON-UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION; PLASMONIC HEATING; SORET COEFFICIENTS; TEMPERATURE-RESPONSIVE; THERMODIFFUSION;

NANOPORES;

EID: 84927123546     PISSN: 15698025     EISSN: 15728137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10825-014-0594-8     Document Type: Article

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