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Polymer Release out of a Spherical Vesicle through a Pore

Soft Condensed Matter 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

Translocation of a polymer out of curved surface or membrane is studied via mean first passage time approach. Membrane curvature gives rise to a constraint on polymer conformation, which effectively drives the polymer to the outside of membrane where the available volume of polymer conformational fluctuation is larger. Considering a polymer release out of spherical vesicle, polymer translocation time τ\tau is changed to the scaling behavior τL2\tau\sim L^2 for R<RGR<R_G, from τL3\tau\sim L^3 for RRGR\gg R_G, where LL is the polymer contour length and RR, RGR_G are vesicle radius and polymer radius of gyration respectively. Also the polymer capture into a spherical budd is studied and possible apparatus for easy capture is suggested.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9802099,
  title  = {Polymer Release out of a Spherical Vesicle through a Pore},
  author = {Pyeong Jun Park and Wokyung Sung},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9802099},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

14 pages RevTeX, 6 postscript figures, published in Phys. Rev. E 57, 730 (1998)