scholarly journals Trapping, gliding, vaulting: transport of semiflexible polymers in periodic post arrays

Soft Matter ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (23) ◽  
pp. 5534-5544
Author(s):  
Brato Chakrabarti ◽  
Charles Gaillard ◽  
David Saintillan

We use numerical simulations to investigate the dynamics, conformations, and transport properties of semiflexible polymers flowing through periodic post arrays.

2017 ◽  
Vol 130 ◽  
pp. 24-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiaao Hao ◽  
Jingying Wang ◽  
Zhenxun Gao ◽  
Chongwen Jiang ◽  
Chunhian Lee

2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (8) ◽  
pp. 2351-2370 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yann Jobic ◽  
Prashant Kumar ◽  
Frédéric Topin ◽  
René Occelli

2010 ◽  
Vol 132 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Qingjun Kong ◽  
Richard A. Able ◽  
Veronica Dudu ◽  
Maribel Vazquez

Microfabrication has become widely utilized to generate controlled microenvironments that establish chemical concentration gradients for a variety of engineering and life science applications. To establish microfluidic flow, the majority of existing devices rely upon additional facilities, equipment, and excessive reagent supplies, which together limit device portability as well as constrain device usage to individuals trained in technological disciplines. The current work presents our laboratory-developed bridged μLane system, which is a stand-alone device that runs via conventional pipette loading and can operate for several days without need of external machinery or additional reagent volumes. The bridged μLane is a two-layer polydimethylsiloxane microfluidic device that is able to establish controlled chemical concentration gradients over time by relying solely upon differences in reagent densities. Fluorescently labeled Dextran was used to validate the design and operation of the bridged μLane by evaluating experimentally measured transport properties within the microsystem in conjunction with numerical simulations and established mathematical transport models. Results demonstrate how the bridged μLane system was used to generate spatial concentration gradients that resulted in an experimentally measured Dextran diffusivity of (0.82±0.01)×10−6 cm2/s.


Soft Matter ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 452-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oleksandr Chepizhko ◽  
Thomas Franosch

Using large-scale numerical simulations we show that ideal circle microswimmers experience crowding-enhanced diffusion. We study in detail their anomalous transport properties at a critical density of obstacles.


2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 677-689 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Mendoza ◽  
A. M. Mancho ◽  
S. Wiggins

Abstract. We use a recently developed Lagrangian transport tool, Lagrangian descriptors, to compare the transport properties of data distributed by AVISO and numerical simulations obtained from the HYCOM model in the Yucatán–Florida current system. Our data correspond to the months from June through August 2010. Structures obtained from HYCOM are noisier than those from AVISO; however, both AVISO and HYCOM succeed in identifying Lagrangian structures that influence the paths of drifters, such as eddies, currents, lobes, etc. We find evidence in which AVISO gives the positions of important hyperbolic trajectories in a manner that is inconsistent with the trajectories of the drifters, while for the same examples HYCOM succeeds to this end.


2015 ◽  
Vol 821-823 ◽  
pp. 737-740
Author(s):  
Viktoryia Uhnevionak ◽  
Alex Burenkov ◽  
Christian Strenger ◽  
Guillermo Ortiz ◽  
Vincent Mortet ◽  
...  

The effect of bulk potential engineering on the transport properties in the channel of SiC MOSFETs has been studied. For this purpose, n-channel SiC MOSFETs have been manufactured with different background doping concentrations and characterized electrically at room temperature by current-voltage as well as by Hall-effect measurements. To interpret the measurements performed, numerical simulations have been carried out using Sentaurus Device of Synopsys. The main finding of the simulation analysis is that the change in the depth of the band-bending has to be considered to explain the doping dependence of SiC MOSFET characteristics.


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