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We review recent progress on the theory of dynamics of polymer translocation through a nanopore based on the iso-flux tension propagation (IFTP) theory. We investigate both pore-driven translocation of flexible and a semi-flexible polymers,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-10-16 Jalal Sarabadani , Tapio Ala-Nissila

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 the translocation dynamics of a folded linear polymer which is pulled through a nanopore by an external force. To this end, we generalize the iso-flux tension propagation (IFTP) theory for end-pulled polymer translocation to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-12-18 Bappa Ghosh , Jalal Sarabadani , Srabanti Chaudhury , Tapio Ala-Nissila

We consider the dynamics of pore-driven polymer translocation through a nanopore to semi-infinite space when the chain is initially confined and equilibrated in a narrow channel. To this end, we use Langevin dynamics (LD) simulations and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-03-11 Soheila Emamyari , Jalal Sarabadani , Ralf Metzler , Tapio Ala-Nissila

We develop a theory for polymer translocation driven by a time-dependent force through an oscillating nanopore. To this end, we extend the iso-flux tension propagation theory (IFTP) [Sarabadani \textit{et al., J. Chem. Phys.}, 2014,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-02 Jalal Sarabadani , Timo Ikonen , Tapio Ala-Nissila

We consider the translocation dynamics of a polymer chain forced through a nanopore by an external force on its head monomer on the trans side. For a proper theoretical treatment we generalize the iso-flux tension propagation (IFTP) theory…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-02-14 Jalal Sarabadani , Bappa Ghosh , Srabanti Chaudhury , Tapio Ala-Nissila

The theoretical formulation of driven polymer translocation through nanopores is complicated by the combination of the pore electrohydrodynamics and the nonequilibrium polymer dynamics originating from the conformational polymer…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-01-15 Sahin Buyukdagli , Jalal Sarabadani , Tapio Ala-Nissila

We investigate polymer translocation through a nanopore under a pulling force using Langevin dynamics simulations. We concentrate on the influence of the chain length $N$ and the pulling force $F$ on the translocation time $\tau$. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-06-27 Ilkka Huopaniemi , Kaifu luo , Tapio Ala-Nissila , See-Chen Ying

We investigate the dynamics of polymer translocation through nanopores under external driving by 3D Langevin Dynamics simulations, focusing on the scaling of the average translocation time $\tau$ versus the length of the polymer, $\tau\sim…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-01-04 Kaifu Luo , Tapio Ala-Nissila , See-Chen Ying , Ralf Metzler

We consider the dynamics of a translocation process of a flexible linear polymer through a nanopore into an environment of active rods in the {\it trans} side. Using Langevin dynamics simulations we find that the rods facilitate…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-11-15 Hamidreza Khalilian , Jalal Sarabadani , Tapio Ala-Nissila

We suggest a theoretical description of the force-induced translocation dynamics of a polymer chain through a nanopore. Our consideration is based on the tensile (Pincus) blob picture of a pulled chain and the notion of propagating front of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-04-17 J. L. A. Dubbeldam , V. G. Rostiashvili , A. Milchev , T. A. Vilgis

Iso-flux tension propagation (IFTP) theory and Langevin dynamics (LD) simulations are employed to study the dynamics of channel-driven polymer translocation in which a polymer translocates into a narrow channel and the monomers in the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-05-16 Jalal Sarabadani , Ralf Metzler , Tapio Ala-Nissila

Using two dimensional Langevin dynamics simulations, we investigate the dynamics of polymer translocation into a fluidic channel with diameter $R$ through a nanopore under a driving force $F$. Due to the crowding effect induced by the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-08-30 Kaifu Luo , Ralf Metzler

We investigate the dynamics of polymer translocation through a nanopore under an externally applied field using the 2D fluctuating bond model with single-segment Monte Carlo moves. We concentrate on the influence of the field strength $E$,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-08-26 Kaifu Luo , Ilkka Huopaniemi , Tapio Ala-Nissila , See-Chen Ying

We study the translocation dynamics of a polymer chain threaded through a nanopore by an external force. By means of diverse methods (scaling arguments, fractional calculus and Monte Carlo simulation) we show that the relevant dynamic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-07-29 J. L. A. Dubbeldam , A. Milchev , V. G. Rostiashvili , T. A. Vilgis

We employ a three-dimensional molecular dynamics to simulate translocation of a polymer through a nanopore driven by an external force. The translocation is investigated for different three pore diameter and two different external forces.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-12-03 Mohammadreza Niknam Hamidabad , Rouhollah Haji Abdolvahab

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 revisit the Fokker-Planck based theory of driven polymer translocation through a narrow nanopore. A bead-spring model of a uniformly charged polyelectrolyte chain translocating through a semi-implicit model of a nanopore embedded in a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-02 Bhavesh R. Sarode , Harshwardhan H. Katkar

Using Langevin dynamics simulations, we investigate the influence of polymer-pore interactions on the dynamics of biopolymer translocation through nanopores. We find that an attractive interaction can significantly change the translocation…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-12-21 Kaifu Luo , Tapio Ala-Nissila , See-Chen Ying , Aniket Bhattacharya

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
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