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Statistical Mechanics of DNA-Mediated Colloidal Aggregation | | Nicholas A. Licata
; Alexei V. Tkachenko
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15 Jun 2006 | | Subject: | Statistical Mechanics; Soft Condensed Matter | | Abstract: | We present a statistical mechanical model of aggregation in colloidal systems with DNA mediated interactions. We obtain a general result for the two-particle binding energy in terms of the hybridization free energy $Delta G$ of DNA and two model dependent properties: the average number of available DNA bridges $left< N
ight>$ and the effective DNA conccentration $c_{eff}$. We calculate these parameters for a particular DNA bridging scheme. The fraction of all the $n$-mers, including the infinite aggregate, are shown to be universal functions of a single parameter directly related to the two-particle binding energy. We explicitly take into account the partial ergodicity of the problem resulting from the slow DNA binding-unbinding dynamics, and introduce the concept of angular localization of DNA linkers. In this way, we obtain a direct link between DNA thermodynamics and the global aggregation and melting properties in DNA-colloidal systems. The results of the theory are shown to be in quantitative agreement with two recent experiments with particles of micron and nanometer size.
PACS numbers: 81.16.Dn, 82.20.Db, 68.65.-k, 87.14.Gg | | Source: | arXiv, cond-mat/0606399 | | Other source: | [GID 772023] pmid17155058 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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