Polymer translocation

Lu Q, Moore JM, Huang G, Mount AS, Rao AM, Larcom LL and Ke PC (2004) RNA Polymer Translocation with Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes. Nano Lett 4 2473-2477. 

The problem of polymer translocation through nanometer-sized pores has recently stimulated much experimental [205-208] as well as theoretical and simulation based research [209-214]. This is mainly since macro-molecular transport through... 

Polymer Translocation Through Narrow Pores in the Membranes and Escape from Long Pores... 

During the last decade, polymer translocation has thus turned into a very active area of research with a variety of theoretical, simulational, and experimental studies examining this process under different conditions [68]. Different driving... 

Fig. 17 (a) Dynamic response of a driven polymer translocation upon switching the pulling force/. At time t the tension force has passed the N(f) monomer and is at distance X t) from the membrane while M i) monomers have already moved into the trans side of the separating membrane. The chain portion to the right of X(t) is moving with mean velocity v(t). (b) First and second moments of the translocation coordinate (s) and (s ), and the variance (As(t) ) = (s ) - (s) for a polymer chain with length JV = 100 and driving force / = 5.0. Reprinted with permission from [89]... 

Luo K, Huopaniemi I, Ala-Nissila T, Ying S (2006) Polymer translocation across a nanopore under an applied external field. J Chem Phys 124 114704-1-114704-7... 

M. Muthukumar, Polymer Translocation (CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2011). 

Figure 1.8 Genesis of the entropic barrier for polymer translocation.

Figure 1.9 (a) Three main stages of polymer translocation process (1) drift-diffusion, (2) capture, and (3) translocation (b) free energy landscape and (c) three stages in the third translocation step. 

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