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Polymer translocation: the first two decades and the recent diversification
- Probably no other field of statistical physics at the borderline of soft matter and biological physics has caused such a flurry of papers as polymer translocation since the 1994 landmark paper by Bezrukov, Vodyanoy, and Parsegian and the study of Kasianowicz in 1996. Experiments, simulations, and theoretical approaches are still contributing novel insights to date, while no universal consensus on the statistical understanding of polymer translocation has been reached. We here collect the published results, in particular, the famous–infamous debate on the scaling exponents governing the translocation process. We put these results into perspective and discuss where the field is going. In particular, we argue that the phenomenon of polymer translocation is non-universal and highly sensitive to the exact specifications of the models and experiments used towards its analysis.
Author details: | Vladimir V. Palyulin, Tapio Ala-Nissila, Ralf MetzlerORCiDGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-76266 |
ISSN: | 1744-683X |
Title of parent work (English): | Soft matter |
Publisher: | the Royal Society of Chemistry |
Place of publishing: | Cambridge |
Editor(s): | Ralf Metzler |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2014/09/19 |
Publication year: | 2014 |
Release date: | 2015/04/30 |
Tag: | anomalous diffusion; dynamics simulation; equation approach; membrane channel; monte-carlo; osmotic-pressure; posttranslational protein translocation; single-stranded-dna; solid-state nanopores; structured polynucleotides |
Volume: | 45 |
Issue: | 10 |
Number of pages: | 22 |
First page: | 9016 |
Last Page: | 9037 |
Organizational units: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Physik und Astronomie |
DDC classification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 53 Physik / 530 Physik |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Publishing method: | Open Access |
Grantor: | RSC |
License (English): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung 3.0 Unported |
External remark: | Zweitveröffentlichung in der Schriftenreihe Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe ; 179 |