Journal
ELECTROPHORESIS
Volume 27, Issue 16, Pages 3155-3165Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/elps.200500922
Keywords
boundary effect; constant surface potential; electrophoresis; toroid in cylindrical pore
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The electrophoresis of a toroid (doughnut-shaped entity) along the axis of a long cylindrical pore is analyzed under the conditions of low surface potential and weak Received July 25, 2005 applied electric field. The system under consideration is capable of modeling the Revised February 8, 2006 electrophoretic behavior of various types of biocolloid such as bacterial DNA, plasmid Accepted February 8, 2006 DNA, and anabaenopsis, in a confined space. The influences of the key parameters of the problem, including the sizes of a toroid, the radius of a pore, and the thickness of the double layer, on the electrophoretic mobility of a toroid are discussed. We show that the electrophoretic behavior of a toroid under typical conditions can be different from that of an integrated entity. For instance, although the presence of the pore wall has the effect of retarding the movement of a particle, it becomes advantageous if a toroid is sufficiently close to the boundary. Several interesting behaviors are also observed, for example, the mobility of a toroid when the boundary effect is significant can be larger than that when it is insignificant.
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