Entropically driven motion of polymers in nonuniform nanochannels.

Motion of methanol adsorbed in porous coordination polymer with paramagnetic metal ions.

Molecular motions of methanol adsorbed in 1D nanochannels of pillared-layer coordination polymer with paramagnetic metal ions have been studied by (2)H NMR together with X-ray crystallography.

Entropically driven colloidal crystallization on patterned surfaces

We investigate the self-assembly of colloidal spheres on periodically patterned templates. The surface potentials and the surface phases are induced entropically by the presence of dissolved, nonadsorbing polymers. A rich variety of two-dimensional fluidlike and solidlike phases was observed to form on template potentials with both one- and two-dimensional symmetry. The same methodology was the...

Effect of Insulated Up and Down Lid Motion on the Heat Transfer of a Lid-Driven Cavity with an attached fin

This study investigates the effect of lid motion on the optimal characteristics a thin rectangular fin attached on the hot wall of a square lid-driven cavity with active vertical walls. The optimal fin position is studied for Richardson numbers of 0.1-10. The effect of mounting a rectangular fin with a thermal conductivity of 1 and 1000 on minimization and maximization of heat transfer through ...

Existence and Measurability of the Solution of the Stochastic Differential Equations Driven by Fractional Brownian Motion

Two Adhesive Sites Can Enhance the Knotting Probability of DNA

Self-entanglement, or knotting, is entropically favored in long polymers. Relatively short polymers such as proteins can knot as well, but in this case the entanglement is mainly driven by fine-tuned, sequence-specific interactions. The relation between the sequence of a long polymer and its topological state is here investigated by means of a coarse-grained model of DNA. We demonstrate that th...