Waves of DNA: Propagating excitations in extended nanoconfined polymers

We use a nanofluidic system to investigate the emergence of thermally driven collective phenomena along a single polymer chain. In our approach, a single DNA molecule is confined in a nanofluidic slit etched with arrays of embedded nanocavities; the cavity lattice is designed so that a single chain...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: de Haan, Hendrick W., Reisner, Walter W., Klotz, Alexander
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/105191