ArticleMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2025
Drift Versus Entropic Forces in Overdamped Diffusion Through a Widening Channel.
Article in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
Abstract
This study examines the diffusion of spherical particles in a conical widening channel, with a focus on the effects of deterministic drift and entropic forces. Through numerical simulations, we analyze the motion of particles from a reflecting boundary to an absorbing one. Properties of diffusive motion are explored by inspection of mean squared displacement and mean first passage time. The results show that the diffusion type depends on the drift strength. Without the drift, entropic forces induce effective superdiffusion; however, the increasing drift strength can counterbalance entropic forces and shift the system to standard diffusion and then effective subdiffusion. The mean squared displacement exhibits bending points for high drift values, as predicted by one-dimensional theoretical considerations. The study underscores the importance of considering deterministic and entropic forces in confined geometries.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.