Poly(ethylene glycol)s in Semidilute Regime: Radius of Gyration in the Bulk and Partitioning into a Nanopore

Gurnev, Philip A.; Stanley, Christopher B.; Aksoyoglu, M. Alphan; Hong, Kunlun; Parsegian, V. Adrian; Bezrukov, Sergey M.

doi:10.1021/acs.macromol.6b02571

Title: Poly(ethylene glycol)s in Semidilute Regime: Radius of Gyration in the Bulk and Partitioning into a Nanopore

Journal Article · Thu Mar 09 00:00:00 EST 2017 · Macromolecules

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.6b02571· OSTI ID:1424464

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Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD (United States). Section on Molecular Transport
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Biology and Soft Matter Division
Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (United States). Department of Physics
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences

In this work, using two approaches, small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) from bulk solutions and nanopore conductance-fluctuation analysis, we studied structural and dynamic features of poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) water/salt solutions in the dilute and semidilute regimes. SANS measurements on PEG 3400 at the zero-average contrast yielded the single chain radius of gyration (R_g) over 1–30 wt %. We observed a small but statistically reliable decrease in R_g with increasing PEG concentration: at 30 wt % the chain contracts by a factor of 0.94. Analyzing conductance fluctuations of the α-hemolysin nanopore in the mixtures of PEG 200 with PEG 3400, we demonstrated that polymer partitioning into the nanopore is mostly due to PEG 200. Specifically, for a 1:1 wt/wt mixture the smaller polymer dominates to the extent that only about 1/25 of the nanopore volume is taken by the larger polymer. In conclusion, these findings advance our conceptual and quantitative understanding of nanopore polymer partitioning; they also support the main assumptions of the recent “polymers-pushing-polymers” model.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 1424464

Journal Information:: Macromolecules, Vol. 50, Issue 6; ISSN 0024-9297

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