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 | Nanotech 2002 Vol. 2
Technical Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Computational Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
Chapter 6: Micro and Nano Fluidic Systems |
| | Macromolecules in Microdevices: Multiscale simulation of DNA dynamics in model microfluidic geometries | | Authors: | R.M. Jendrejack, J.J. de Pablo and M.D. Graham | | Affilation: | University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA | | Pages: | 111 - 114 | | Keywords: | DNA, microfluidic, hydrodynamic, interactions, Brownian dynamics, polymer solutions | | Abstract: | Simple arguments predict that the dynamics of a dissolved macromolecule confined to a channel comparable to its equilibrium coi size (~1 um for viral DNA) are quite different from those in free solution, because of the no-slip boundary condition on the fluid motion. Nevertheless, detailed, predictive computations have not been previously performed. We have incorporated a Brownian dynamics model of DNA into a fully self-consistent computational scheme that simultaneously resolves the macromolecular and fluid (i.e. solvent) dynamics of DNA in a microfluidics channel. The key novel feature of this scheme is the numerical computation of the Green's function for the flow problem, enabling a stochastic solution method that incorporates detailed hydrodynamics and respects the fluctuation-dissipation theorem. With this methodology we study a number of important confinement effects, focusing here on the retardation of relaxation of a chain in small channel. |  | View paper | | ISBN: | 0-9708275-6-3 |
| Pages: | 504 |
| Hardcopy: | $100.00 |
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