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Easier sieving through narrower pores: fluctuations and barrier crossing in flow-driven polymer translocation
Rodrigo Ledesma-Aguilar, Takahiro Sakaue, Julia M. Yeomans
We show that the injection of polymer chains into nanochannels becomes easier as the channel becomes narrower. This counter intuitive result arises because of a decrease in the dif…
cond-mat.soft2012
A circle swimmer at low Reynolds number
Rodrigo Ledesma-Aguilar, Hartmut Loewen, Julia M. Yeomans
Swimming in circles occurs in a variety of situations at low Reynolds number. Here we propose a simple model for a swimmer that undergoes circular motion, generalising the model of…