Dynamics of a Polymer in the Presence of Permeable Membranes

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1995-01-13

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9501049v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

20 pages including figures, LaTeX v2.09 and psfig v1.8

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.468857

We study the diffusion of a linear polymer in the presence of permeable membranes without excluded volume interactions, using scaling theory and Monte Carlo simulations. We find that the average time it takes for a chain with polymerization index~$N$ to cross a single isolated membrane varies with~$N$ as~% $N^{5/2}$, giving its permeability proportional to~$N^2$. When the membranes are stacked with uniform spacing~$d$ in the unit of the monomer size, the dynamics of a polymer is shown to have three different regimes. In the limit of small~\mbox{$d \ll N^{1/2}$}, the chain diffuses through reptation and \mbox{$D\sim N^{-2}$}. When $d$ is comparable to~$N^{1/2}$ the diffusion coefficients parallel and perpendicular to the membranes become different from each other. While the diffusion becomes Rouse-like, i.e.~\mbox{$D\sim N^{-1}$}, in the parallel direction, the motion in the perpendicular direction is still hindered by the two-dimensional networks. The diffusion eventually becomes isotropic and Rouse-like for large~\mbox{$d \gg N$}.

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