The Nanofluidic Staircase: A Brownian Motor for Polymer Characterization and Transport

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Abstract

A coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulation is used to study the motion of a polymer chain in a nanofluidic staircase (Stavis et al., Nanotechnology, 20(16), 2009), a device which consists of a collection of nanoslits of increasing depth arranged in step-like fashion in a fluidic channel. The slit depths span the Odijk ($H

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Authors

  • Frederick Phelan Jr.

    • NIST
    • National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

  • Christopher Forrey

    • Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

  • Jon Geist

    • National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

  • Samuel Stavis

    • National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

  • Elizabeth Strychalski

    • National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)