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Nano-pore based characterization of branched polymers

Soft Condensed Matter 2014-02-03 v1

Abstract

We propose a novel characterization method of randomly branched polymers based on the geometrical property of such objects in confined spaces. The central idea is that randomly branched polymers exhibit passing/clogging transition across the nano-channel as a function of the channel size. This critical channel size depends on the degree of the branching, whereby allowing the extraction of the branching information of the molecule.

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@article{arxiv.1401.8035,
  title  = {Nano-pore based characterization of branched polymers},
  author = {Takahiro Sakaue and Françoise Brochard-Wyart},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.8035},
  year   = {2014}
}

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5 pages, 2 figures

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