Chiral separation in microflows.

Molecules that only differ by their chirality, so-called enantiomers, often possess different properties with respect to their biological function. Therefore, the separation of enantiomers presents a prominent challenge in molecular biology and has long been a main pursuit of organic chemistry. We suggest a new separation technique for chiral molecules that is based on the transport properties in a microfluidic flow with spatially variable vorticity. Because of their size the thermal fluctuating motion of the molecules must be taken into account. These fluctuations play a decisive role in the proposed separation mechanism.

• Publication year

  2005

• Venue

  Physical Review Letters

• Publication date

  2005-06-03

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Physics, Chemistry

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.014502arXiv cond-mat/0506084PMID 16486461
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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