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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…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-01-04 Meng-Bo Luo , Shuang Zhang , Fan Wu , Li-Zhen Sun

We consider the translocation of a one-dimensional polymer through a pore channel helped by a motor driven by a dichotomous noise with time exponential correlation. We are interested in the study of the translocation time, mean velocity and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-03-01 Alessandro Fiasconaro , Juan José Mazo , Fernando Falo

Single file translocation of a homopolymer through an active channel under the presence of a driving force is studied using Langevin dynamics simulation. It is shown that a channel with sticky walls and oscillating width could lead to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-02-01 Jack A. Cohen , Abhishek Chaudhuri , Ramin Golestanian

We study the translocation of polymers across varying-section channels. Using systematic approximations, we derive a simplified model that reduces the problem of polymer translocation through varying-section channels to that of a point-like…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-07-13 Valentino Bianco , Paolo Malgaretti

Here using LAMMPS molecular dynamics (MD) software, we simulate polymer translocation in 2 dimensions. We do the simulations for weak and moderate forces and for different pore diameters. Our results show that in both non-equilibrium and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-04-26 Mohammadreza Niknam Hamidabad , Rouhollah Haji Abdolvahab

We study the driven translocation of a semi-flexible polymer through a nanopore by means of a modified version of the iso-flux tension propagation theory (IFTP), and extensive molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. We show that in contrast to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-12-28 Jalal Sarabadani , Timo Ikonen , Harri Mökkönen , Tapio Ala-Nissila , Spencer Carson , Meni Wanunu

We investigate a model of chaperone-assisted polymer translocation through a nanopore in a membrane. Translocation is driven by irreversible random sequential absorption of chaperone proteins that bind to the polymer on one side of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-19 Paul Krapivsky , Kirone Mallick

Langevin Dynamics simulations of polymer translocation are performed where the polymer is stretched via two opposing forces applied on the first and last monomer before and during translocation. In this setup, polymer translocation is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-08-08 Hendrick W. de Haan , David Sean , Gary W. Slater

We show that the injection of polymer chains into nanochannels becomes easier as the channel becomes narrower. This counter intuitive result arises because of a decrease in the diffusive time scale of the chains with increasing confinement.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-07-16 Rodrigo Ledesma-Aguilar , Takahiro Sakaue , Julia M. Yeomans

We study the driven translocation of polymers under time-dependent driving forces using $N$-particle Langevin dynamics simulations. We consider the force to be either sinusoidally oscillating in time or dichotomic noise with exponential…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-12 Timo Ikonen , Jaeoh Shin , Tapio Ala-Nissila , Wokyung Sung

Numerical results on the translocation of long biopolymers through mid-sized and wide pores are presented. The simulations are based on a novel methodology which couples molecular motion to a mesoscopic fluid solvent. Thousands of events of…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Maria Fyta , Simone Melchionna , Massimo Bernaschi , Efthimios Kaxiras , Sauro Succi

Theoretical derivation and numerical confirmation are provided for the scaling of pore-blockade times as $N^{2+\nu}$ for unbiased translocation in two and three dimensions, with $N$ as the polymer length and $\nu$ as the Flory exponent of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-02-12 Debabrata Panja , Gerard T. Barkema

We present a theoretical description of the dynamics of a semi-flexible polymer being pulled through a nanopore by an external force acting at the pore. Our theory is based on the tensile blob picture of Pincus in which the front of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-16 Pui-Man Lam , Yi Zhen

Translocation dynamics of an active semi-flexible polymer through a nano-pore into a rigid two dimensional circular cavity, and the polymer packing dynamics have been studied by using Langevin dynamics (LD) simulations. The results show…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-11-15 Amir Rezaie-Dereshgi , Hamidreza Khalilian , Jalal Sarabadani

In this work we study the assisted translocation of a polymer across a membrane nanopore, inside which a molecular motor exerts a force fuelled by the hydrolysis of ATP molecules. In our model the motor switches to its active state for a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-03-26 A. Fiasconaro , J. J. Mazo , F. Falo

We study pore blockade times for a translocating polymer of length $N$, driven by a field $E$ across the pore in three dimensions. The polymer performs Rouse dynamics, i.e., we consider polymer dynamics in the absence of hydrodynamical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-02-15 Henk Vocks , Debabrata Panja , Gerard T. Barkema , Robin C. Ball

I did off-lattice 3D Monte Carlo simulations for polymer translocation through a narrow pore at low external field, trying to be as close to a direct approach as possible. The process was found non equilibrium globally, but dynamics of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-06-18 Stanislav Kotsev

We employ a multiscale approach to model the translocation of biopolymers through nanometer size pores. Our computational scheme combines microscopic Langevin molecular dynamics (MD) with a mesoscopic lattice Boltzmann (LB) method for the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2011-11-10 Maria Fyta , Simone Melchionna , Efthimios Kaxiras , Sauro Succi

Polymer translocation in three dimensions out of planar confinements is studied in this paper. Three membranes are located at $z=-h$, $z=0$ and $z=h_1$. These membranes are impenetrable, except for the middle one at $z=0$, which has a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-01-29 Debabrata Panja , Gerard T. Barkema , Robin C. Ball

We consider the dynamics of polymer translocation out of confined environments. Analytic scaling arguments lead to the prediction that the translocation time scales like $\tau\sim N^{\beta+\nu_{2D}}R^{1+(1-\nu_{2D})/\nu}$ for translocation…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-08-11 Kaifu Luo , Ralf Metzler , Tapio Ala-Nissila , See-Chen Ying