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Biophysical Characterization of Flagellar Motor Functions
Published on: January 18, 2017
Microscopic analysis of a thermal brownian motor
C Van den Broeck1, R Kawai, P Meurs
1Limburgs Universitair Centrum, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium.
Physical Review Letters
|September 28, 2004
Abstract:
We study a genuine Brownian motor by hard disk molecular dynamics and calculate analytically its properties, including its drift speed and thermal conductivity, from microscopic theory.

