Semiphenomenological model for the dispersion of DNA during electrophoresis in a microfluidic array of posts

Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 6-

  Dorfman, Kevin D ^a   Viovy, Jean Louis ^a  

^a INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DRUG MIXTURE;

CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; DRUG MIXTURE; ELECTROPHORESIS; EVALUATION STUDY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROFLUIDICS; MOTION; PROCEDURES;

COMPLEX MIXTURES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; DNA; ELECTROPHORESIS; MICROFLUIDICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOTION;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROPHORESIS; ENTROPY; GELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMAGNETIC MATERIALS; PROBABILITY; SELF ASSEMBLY; SUPERPARAMAGNETISM;

DNA DISPERSIVITY; MOLECULAR UNDERPINNING;

DNA;

EID: 85036352478     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.69.011901     Document Type: Article

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