Polymer translocation out of confined environments.
We consider the dynamics of polymer translocation out of confined environments. Analytic scaling arguments lead to the prediction that the translocation time scales like tau approximately N(beta+nu(2D))R(1+(1-nu(2D))/nu) for translocation out of a planar confinement between two walls with separation R into a three-dimensional (3D) environment, and tau approximately N(beta+1)R for translocation out of two strips with separation R into a two-dimensional (2D) environment. Here, N is the chain length, nu and nu(2D) are the Flory exponents in 3D and 2D, and beta is the scaling exponent of translocation velocity with N , whose value for the present choice of parameters is beta equals approximately 0.8 based on Langevin dynamics simulations. These scaling exponents improve on earlier predictions.
Luo
Kaifu
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Physics Department, Technical University of Munich, D-85748 Garching, Germany. luokaifu@gmail.com
Metzler
Ralf
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Ala-Nissila
Tapio
T
Ying
See-Chen
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D001692:Biological Transport; D007700:Kinetics; D008958:Models, Molecular; D011108:Polymers / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D016062:Porosity
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