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arxiv: cond-mat/9802099 · v1 · submitted 1998-02-10 · ❄️ cond-mat.soft

Polymer Release out of a Spherical Vesicle through a Pore

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keywords polymermembranesphericalvesiclecaptureradiusreleasestudied
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Translocation of a polymer out of curved surface or membrane is studied via mean first passage time approach. Membrane curvature gives rise to a constraint on polymer conformation, which effectively drives the polymer to the outside of membrane where the available volume of polymer conformational fluctuation is larger. Considering a polymer release out of spherical vesicle, polymer translocation time $\tau$ is changed to the scaling behavior $\tau\sim L^2$ for $R<R_G$, from $\tau\sim L^3$ for $R\gg R_G$, where $L$ is the polymer contour length and $R$, $R_G$ are vesicle radius and polymer radius of gyration respectively. Also the polymer capture into a spherical budd is studied and possible apparatus for easy capture is suggested.

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