ArticleThe Journal of chemical physics2018
Single molecule electrophoresis of star polymers through nanopores: Simulations.
Article in The Journal of chemical physics, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- Langevin Dynamics Study on the Driven Translocation of Polymer Chains with a Hairpin Structure.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Constraints on Knot Insertion, Not Internal Jamming, Control Polycatenane Translocation Dynamics through Crystalline Pores.Macromolecules · 2023Article
- Translocation, Rejection and Trapping of Polyampholytes.Polymers · 2022Article
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Abstract
We study the translocation of charged star polymers through a solid-state nanopore using coarse-grained Langevin dynamics simulations, in the context of using nanopores as high-throughput devices to characterize polymers based on their architecture. The translocation is driven by an externally applied electric field. Our key observation is that translocation kinetics is highly sensitive to the functionality (number of arms) of the star polymer. The mean translocation time is found to vary non-monotonically with polymer functionality, exhibiting a critical value for which translocation is the fastest. The origin of this effect lies in the competition between the higher driving force inside the nanopore and inter-arm electrostatic repulsion in entering the pore, as the functionality is increased. Our simulations also show that the value of the critical functionality can be tuned by varying nanopore dimensions. Moreover, for narrow nanopores, star polymers above a threshold functionality do not translocate at all. These observations suggest the use of nanopores as a high-throughput low-cost analytical tool to characterize and separate star polymers.
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