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Translocation time of a polymer chain through an energy gradient nanopore

Soft Condensed Matter 2017-01-04 v1

Abstract

The translocation time of a polymer chain through an interaction energy gradient nanopore was studied by Monte Carlo simulations and the Fokker-Planck equation with double-absorbing boundary conditions. Both the simulation and calculation revealed three different behaviors for polymer translocation. These behaviors can be explained qualitatively from free-energy landscapes obtained for polymer translocation at different parameters. Results show that the translocation time of a polymer chain through a nanopore can be tuned by suitably designing the interaction energy gradient.

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@article{arxiv.1701.00584,
  title  = {Translocation time of a polymer chain through an energy gradient nanopore},
  author = {Meng-Bo Luo and Shuang Zhang and Fan Wu and Li-Zhen Sun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.00584},
  year   = {2017}
}

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20 pages and 7 figures