Nanofluidic structures have over the last two decades emerged as a powerful platform for
detailed analysis of DNA on the kilobase pair length scale. When DNA is confined to a …

This paper recounts recent advances on the atomistic modeling of twinning in body-centered
cubic (bcc) and face-centered cubic (fcc) alloy. Specifically, we have reviewed:(i) the …

DNA–protein interactions are at the core of the cellular machinery and single molecule
methods have revolutionized the possibilities to study, and our understanding of these …

The wormlike-chain model is commonly used to describe the statistical properties of DNA
and liquid-crystal polymers. Following the Green's function approach, here we present the …

Experiments measuring DNA extension in nanochannels are at odds with even the most
basic predictions of current scaling arguments for the conformations of confined semiflexible …

Within a confining tube section, the multithreads of a strongly confined, backfolding polymer
exert the excluded-volume repulsions on each other and produce physical properties that …

We compare two theories for backfolding of semiflexible polymers, such as DNA, confined in
circular tubes of diameter of the order of the persistence length of the macromolecule. The …

We have measured the diffusivity of λ-DNA molecules in approximately square
nanochannels with effective sizes ranging from 117 to 260 nm at moderate ionic strength …

Efforts to study the polymer physics of DNA confined in nanochannels have been stymied by
a lack of consensus regarding its wall depletion length. We have measured this quantity in …

Nanochannels provide a means for detailed experiments on the effect of confinement on
biomacromolecules, such as DNA. Here we introduce a model for the complete unfolding of …