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Nanopore-Based Characterization of Branched Polymers

Year: 2014

Type: article

Abstract: We propose a novel characterization method of randomly branched polymers based on the geometrical property of such objects in confined spaces. The central idea is that randomly branched polymers exhibit a passing/clogging transition across the nanochannel as a function of the channel size. This critical channel size depends on the degree of the branching, whereby allowing the extraction of the branching information of the molecule.

Source: ACS Macro Letters

DOI: 10.1021/mz400598t

Authors: Takahiro Sakaue, Françoise Brochard-Wyart

Institutions: Kyushu University, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Physique des Cellules et Cancers, Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, Institut Curie

Language: English

Topic: Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies

Subfield: Biomedical Engineering

Field: Engineering

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Award: Electrorheology of immiscible fluid mixtures