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Study on Hindered Diffusion of Single Polyelectrolyte Chain in Micro-Pores by Employing Brownian Dynamics Simulations  

전명석 (한국과학기술연구원 Complex Fluids and Membrane 연구팀)
곽현욱 (한국과학기술연구원 Complex Fluids and Membrane 연구팀)
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Membrane Journal / v.12, no.4, 2002 , pp. 207-215 More about this Journal
Abstract
The hindered diffusion in confined spaces is an important phenomenon to understand in a micro-scale the filtration mechanism determined by the particle motion in membrane pores. Compared to the case of spherical colloids, both the theoretical investigations and the experiments on the hindered diffusion of polyelectrolytes is actually more difficult, due to lots of relevant parameters resulting from the complicated conformational properties of the polyelectrolyte chain. We have successfully performed the Brownian dynamics simulations upon a single polyeiectrolyte confined in a slit-like pore, where a coarse-grained bead-spring model incorporated with Debye-Huckel interaction is properly adopted. For the given sizes of both the polyelectrolyte and the pore width, the hindered diffusion coefficient decreases as the solution ionic concentration decreases. It is evident that a charge effect of the pore wall enhances the hindered diffusion of polyelectrolyte. Simulation results allow us to make sense of the diffusive transport through the micro-pore, which is restricted by the influences of the steric hindrance of polyelectrolytes as well as the electrostatic repulsion between the polyelectrolytes and pore wall.
Keywords
Brownian dynamics simulation; hindered diffusion; polyelectrolyte; chain conformation; membrane pore;
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