Journal
SOFT MATTER
Volume 8, Issue 2, Pages 367-374Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c1sm06562a
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21074126, 21174140]
- Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education [20103402110032]
- Chinese Academy of Science (CAS)
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We investigate the ejection dynamics of a ring polymer out of a cylindrical nanochannel using both theoretical analysis and three dimensional Langevin dynamics simulations. The ejection dynamics for ring polymers show two regimes, like for linear polymers, depending on the relative length of the chain compared with the channel. For long chains with length N larger than the critical chain length N-c, at which point the chain just fully occupies the nanochannel, the ejection for ring polymers is faster compared to linear chains of identical length due to a larger entropic pulling force; while for short chains (N < N-c), it takes a longer time for ring polymers to eject out of the channel due to a longer diffusion distance to reach the exit of the channel before experiencing the entropic pulling force. These results can help us to understand many biological processes, such as bacterial chromosome segregation.
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