Entropic torque |
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Authors: | Roth R van Roij R Andrienko D Mecke K R Dietrich S |
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Institution: | Max-Planck-Institut für Metallforschung, Heisenbergstrasse 1, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany. |
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Abstract: | Quantitative predictions are presented of a depletion-induced torque and force acting on a single colloidal hard rod immersed in a solvent of hard spheres close to a planar hard wall. This torque and force, which are entirely of entropic origin, may play an important role for the key-lock principle, according to which a biological macromolecule (the key) is functional only in a particular orientation with respect to a cavity (the lock). |
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