Giant enhancement of hydrodynamically enforced entropic trapping in thin channels
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Giant enhancement of hydrodynamically enforced entropic trapping in thin channels
Using our generalized Fick-Jacobs approach [1,2] and extensive Brownian dynamics simulations, we study particle transport through three-dimensional periodic channels of different height. Directed motion is caused by the interplay of constant bias acting along the channel axis and a pressure-driven flow. The tremendous change of the flow profile shape in channel direction with the channel height...
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عنوان ژورنال: The European Physical Journal Special Topics
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1951-6355,1951-6401
DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2014-02321-9