• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Dynamics of a polymer chain confined in a membrane
  • Contributor: Ramachandran, S. [Author]; Komura, S. [Author]; Seki, K. [Author]; Gompper, G. [Author]
  • imprint: Springer, 2011
  • Published in: The European physical journal / E 34, 46 (2011). doi:10.1140/epje/i2011-11046-3
  • Language: English
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1140/epje/i2011-11046-3
  • ISSN: 1292-8941
  • Keywords: Polymers ; Molecular Dynamics Simulation ; Hydrodynamics ; Diffusion ; Particle Size ; Membrane Proteins ; Solvents: chemistry ; Solvents ; Polymers: chemistry ; Membrane Proteins: chemistry ; Membrane Proteins: metabolism ; Polymers: metabolism
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  • Description: We present a Brownian dynamics theory with full hydrodynamics (Stokesian dynamics) for a Gaussian polymer chain embedded in a liquid membrane which is surrounded by bulk solvent and walls. The mobility tensors are derived in Fourier space for the two geometries, namely, a free membrane embedded in a bulk fluid, and a membrane sandwiched by the two walls. Within the preaveraging approximation, a new expression for the diffusion coefficient of the polymer is obtained for the free-membrane geometry. We also carry out a Rouse normal mode analysis to obtain the relaxation time and the dynamical structure factor. For large polymer size, both quantities show Zimm-like behavior in the free-membrane case, whereas they are Rouse-like for the sandwiched membrane geometry. We use the scaling argument to discuss the effect of excluded-volume interactions on the polymer relaxation time.
  • Access State: Open Access