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SUMMARY:Working under confinement - Miguel Rubi\, Universitat de Barcelona
  &amp\; Leverhulme Professor at Imperial College London
DTSTART:20140221T140000Z
DTEND:20140221T150000Z
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CONTACT:Alessio Zaccone
DESCRIPTION:How does confinement alter the transport properties of colloid
 al particles\, the functionalities of molecular machines and in general th
 e mechanisms of energy-transfer and energy-conversion at small scales? Thi
 s question\, fundamental for the modelling of soft-matter systems and biol
 ogical systems\, is attracting the interest of many researchers in the fie
 ld. In a basic model proposed\, the confinement effects are considered thr
 ough an entropic potential. It has been shown that transport through entro
 pic barriers or entropic transport exhibits peculiar characteristics very 
 different from those observed when activation takes place through energeti
 c barriers.  \nIn this talk\, I will review recent progresses in the study
  of entropic transport and its applications to soft-matter and biological 
 systems. I will show that the confinement plays a very important role in t
 he mechanisms of energy-conversion at the nanoscale\, in particular in the
  functionality of molecular machines.\n
LOCATION:Small Lecture Theatre\, Cavendish Laboratory
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