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Compression of Nanoslit Confined Polymer Solutions

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MACROMOLECULES
Volume 51, Issue 2, Pages 617-625

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AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.7b01894

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  1. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) [RGPIN 386212]
  2. Fonds de recherche du Quebec Nature et technologies (FQRNT) Projet d'equipe [PR-180418]

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Many systems of biophysical and technological interest consist of multiple, interpenetrating chains in a confined volume, a confined, polymer solution. Using nanofluidic approaches developed originally for the study of single chains in confined geometries, we develop an assay to create confined polymer solutions on-chip and then probe the solution response to applied compressive forcing: In our approach, multiple chains are introduced into a nanoslit via hydrodynamic flow and are then concentrated against a barrier that is permeable only to sorvent. For sufficiently high concentration; the compressed solution profile can be described- by a mean-field polymer model based on Doi's two-fluid approach, with the chain free energy described by a GinzburgTtype free energy functional. This theory furnishes a partial differential equation based description of the concentration Profile in-items of a nonlinear Schrodinger-type equation providing a-general theoretical framework for modeling confined polymer solution dynamics.

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