In recent years, applications and experimental studies of DNA in nanochannels have
stimulated the investigation of the polymer physics of DNA in confinement. Recent advances …

A semiflexible polymer chain shows characteristic local chain persistency and finite
extensibility. Confinement of such a polymer introduces a confinement length scale that …

A scaling analysis is presented of the statistics of long DNA confined in nanochannels and
nanoslits. It is argued that there are several regimes in between the de Gennes and Odijk …

Scaling regimes for polymers confined to tubular channels are well established when the
channel cross-sectional dimension is either very small (Odjik regime) or large (classic de …

We consider a long, semiflexible polymer with persistence length P and contour length L
fluctuating in a narrow cylindrical channel of diameter D. In the regime D⪡ P⪡ L the free …

DNA confinement in nanochannels is emerging as an important tool for genomics and an
excellent platform for testing the theories of confined wormlike polymers. Using cutting-edge …

A theory is presented of the elongation of double-stranded DNA confined in a nanochannel
based on a study of the formation of hairpins. A hairpin becomes constrained as it …

We utilize the wormlike chain model in the framework of the self-consistent field theory to
investigate the influence of chain rigidity on the phase diagram of AB diblock copolymers in …

The electrophoretically driven transport of double-stranded λ-phage DNA through focused
ion beam (FIB) milled nanochannels is described. Nanochannels were fabricated having …

Advanced Monte Carlo simulations are used to study the effect of nanoslit confinement on
metric and topological properties of model DNA chains. We consider both linear and …