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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 106, Issue 22, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.228102
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- Keck Foundation
- NSF through the NYU MRSEC [DMR-0820341]
- NASA [NNX08AK04G]
- NASA [99476, NNX08AK04G] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
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Conventional diffusion = 2Dt gives way to subdiffusion (Delta R(2)(t)> similar to t(mu), 0 < mu < 1 when the waiting time distribution phi(tau) is nonintegrable. We have studied a model system, colloidal particles functionalized with DNA sticky ends diffusing on a complementary coated surface. We observe a crossover from subdiffusive to conventional behavior for (Delta R(2)(t)> and phi(tau) as temperature is increased near the particle-surface melting temperature consistent with a simple Gaussian distribution of sticky ends. Our results suggest that any system with randomness in its binding energy should exhibit subdiffusive behavior as it unbinds. This will strongly affect the kinetics of self-assembly.
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