Emergent slow dynamics of collapsed polymers flowing through porous media.
basic_science · Level V
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Abstract
Using hydrodynamic simulations, we study the single polymers flowing through model porous media (close-packed colloidal crystal). In good solvent or high flow rates, the polymer transport is similar to gel electrophoresis, with size-dependent sieving for L_{c}/L≲1 and size-independent biased reptation for L_{c}/L≳1 (L_{c} is the polymer contour length and L is the diameter of colloids forming the porous media). Importantly, in bad solvent and low flow rates, the polymers show an extra window of size-dependent velocity for 1≲L_{c}/L≲2, where the polymer transport is controlled by a globule-stretch transition at pore throats, and the transport velocity is much slower than reptation.