Entropic transport in confined media: a challenge for computational studies in biological and soft-matter systems

P Malgaretti, I Pagonabarraga, JM Rubi - Frontiers in Physics, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Transport in small-scale biological and soft-matter systems typically occurs under
confinement conditions in which particles proceed through obstacles and irregularities of the …

Fick–Jacobs description and first passage dynamics for diffusion in a channel under stochastic resetting

S Jain, D Boyer, A Pal, L Dagdug - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The transport of particles through channels is of paramount importance in physics,
chemistry, and surface science due to its broad real world applications. Much insight can be …

Diffusive escape through a narrow opening: new insights into a classic problem

DS Grebenkov, G Oshanin - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
We study the mean first exit time (Tε) of a particle diffusing in a circular or a spherical micro-
domain with an impenetrable confining boundary containing a small escape window (EW) of …

How stickiness can speed up diffusion in confined systems

A Alexandre, M Mangeat, T Guérin, DS Dean - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
The paradigmatic model for heterogeneous media used in diffusion studies is built from
reflecting obstacles and surfaces. It is well known that the crowding effect produced by these …

Ratchet effect in an asymmetric two-dimensional system of Janus particles

P Kalinay, F Slanina - Physical Review E, 2023 - APS
We consider a disk-like Janus particle self-driven by a force of constant magnitude f, but an
arbitrary direction depending on the stochastic rotation of the disk. The particle diffuses in a …

Projection of two-dimensional diffusion in a curved midline and narrow varying width channel onto the longitudinal dimension

L Dagdug, I Pineda - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
This study focuses on the derivation of a general effective diffusion coefficient to describe the
two-dimensional (2D) diffusion in a narrow and smoothly asymmetric channel of varying …

On the applicability of entropy potentials in transport problems

AM Berezhkovskii, SM Bezrukov - The European Physical Journal Special …, 2014 - Springer
Transport in confined structures of varying geometry has become the subject of growing
attention in recent years since such structures are ubiquitous in biology and technology. In …

Anisotropic diffusion of spherical particles in closely confining microchannels

SL Dettmer, S Pagliara, K Misiunas, UF Keyser - Physical Review E, 2014 - APS
We present here the measurement of the diffusivity of spherical particles closely confined by
narrow microchannels. Our experiments yield a two-dimensional map of the position …

Curvature and bottlenecks control molecular transport in inverse bicontinuous cubic phases

S Assenza, R Mezzenga - The Journal of chemical physics, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
We perform a simulation study of the diffusion of small solutes in the confined domains
imposed by inverse bicontinuous cubic phases for the primitive, diamond, and gyroid …

Hydrodynamically enforced entropic trap** of Brownian particles

S Martens, AV Straube, G Schmid… - Physical review …, 2013 - APS
We study the transport of Brownian particles through a corrugated channel caused by a
force field containing curl-free (scalar potential) and divergence-free (vector potential) parts …