Translocation dynamics of knotted polymers under a constant or periodic external field

We perform Brownian dynamics simulations to examine how knots alter the dynamics of polymers moving through nanopores under an external field. In the first part of this paper, we study the situation when the field is constant. Here, knots halt translocation above a critical force with jamming occurr...

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Main Authors: Narsimhan, Vivek, Renner, Christopher Benjamin, Doyle, Patrick S
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Royal Society of Chemistry 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/107422
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7448-4202
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1687-4522