Translocation of a Self-propelled Polymer through a Narrow Pore

Chao Wang; Han-Xian Hu; Yan-Li Zhou; Bin Zhao; Meng-Bo Luo

doi:10.1007/s10118-022-2768-3

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Translocation of a Self-propelled Polymer through a Narrow Pore

RESEARCH ARTICLE | Updated：2022-11-16

- Translocation of a Self-propelled Polymer through a Narrow Pore
- Chinese Journal of Polymer Science Vol. 40, Issue 12, Pages: 1670-1678(2022)
- Affiliations：
  
  a.Department of Physics, Taizhou University, Taizhou 318000, China
  b.Department of Physics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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  chaowang0606@126.com
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- DOI：10.1007/s10118-022-2768-3
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- Received：10 March 2022，
  
  Revised：2022-4-5，
  
  Accepted：20 April 2022，
  
  Online First：20 July 2022，
  
  Published：01 December 2022
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Wang, C.; Hu, H. X.; Zhou, Y. L.; Zhao, B.; Luo, M. B. Translocation of a self-propelled polymer through a narrow pore. Chinese J. Polym. Sci. 2022, 40, 1670–1678

Chao Wang, Han-Xian Hu, Yan-Li Zhou, et al. Translocation of a Self-propelled Polymer through a Narrow Pore[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 2022, 40(12): 1670-1678.
Wang, C.; Hu, H. X.; Zhou, Y. L.; Zhao, B.; Luo, M. B. Translocation of a self-propelled polymer through a narrow pore. Chinese J. Polym. Sci. 2022, 40, 1670–1678 DOI： 10.1007/s10118-022-2768-3.

Chao Wang, Han-Xian Hu, Yan-Li Zhou, et al. Translocation of a Self-propelled Polymer through a Narrow Pore[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 2022, 40(12): 1670-1678. DOI： 10.1007/s10118-022-2768-3.

摘要

Under the driving of the tangential active force

the semiflexible polymer translocates through the narrow pore in a railway motion manner

resulting that the translocation time is independent of the rigidity of the polymer but is proportional to the polymer length and the reciprocal of the active force.

Abstract

Recent studies indicate that active polymers often show curious conformational and dynamical properties. Specially

rigid polymers with self-propelled tangential forces can move directionally and even push a cargo. Motivated by this

the translocation of an active bead-spring polymer through a narrow pore is studied simulationly in this work. Each bead of the polymer is propelled by a tangential active force (

) along the contour of the polymer. Simulation results show that the active polymer translocates through the pore in a railway-motion manner. The translocation velocity

of the polymer is determined only by

resulting that the translocation time (

) as a function of the polymer length (

) and the active force

can be expressed as

$$ \tau \propto N{f}_{\mathrm{a}}^{-1} $$

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which is independent of the rigidity of the polymer. Our results indicate that the translocation dynamics of active polymers is quite different from that of passive polymers.

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