16–18 Sept 2024
Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science; Jagiellonian University
Europe/Warsaw timezone

A Numerical Study on the Diffusion Behavior of an Anisotropic Molecule in Cylindrical and Trapezoidal Channel

18 Sept 2024, 13:00
20m
Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science; Jagiellonian University

Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science; Jagiellonian University

Lojasiewicza 11 30-348 Kraków Poland
Regular talk Session 8

Speaker

Michal Ciesla (M. Smoluchowski Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland)

Description

In many biological systems and various artificial materials that map them, particles pass through nanopores and nanochannels.
Artificial single nanopores are attracting increasing attention due to their potential use in nanofluidics, sensor technology, and information processing.
In this type of research, experiments focus on properties that affect the mobility of a molecule traveling through the channel.
However, because of experimental constraints, the variations in the shape of the channel and molecules are restricted.
In this paper, we try to overcome these limitations by performing numerical experiments of passing an anisotropic sphere cylindrical molecule of various lengths and thicknesses through a fixed-size cylindrical and trapezoidal channel.
Assuming that the molecule's movement was driven by diffusion, we determined the dependence of the effective diffusion type, the first passage time, and the molecule orientation distribution on its size.
The results show that thicker molecules pass the channel slightly slower, while their lengths do not affect the passage time.
Moreover, normal diffusion was observed despite the particle size.

[1] Cieśla, M.; Dybiec, B.; Krasowska, M.; Siwy, Z.; Strzelewicz, A. Numerical modeling of an anisotropic molecule diffusion through cylindrical channel, send to Molecules
[2] Qiu, Y.; Hinkle, P.; Yang, C.; Bakker, H.E.; Schiel, M.; Wang, H.; Melnikov, D.; Gracheva, M.; Toimil-Molare, M.E.; Imhof, A.; Siwy, Z.S. Pores with longitudinal irregularities distinguish objects by shape. ACS Nano 2015, 9, 4390–439
[3] Schiel, M.; Siwy, Z.S. Diffusion and trapping of single particles in pores with combined pressure and dynamic voltage. J. Phys. Chem. C 2014, 118, 19214–1922

Primary authors

Michal Ciesla (M. Smoluchowski Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland) Bartłomiej Dybiec Monika Krasowska (Silesian University of Technology) Prof. Zuzanna Siwy (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, United States) Anna Strzelewicz (Silesian University of Technology)

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