Polymer diffusion in a gel network

In this thesis, we model the diusion of a tracer polymer inside of a gel network and simulate it, hoping to nd a connection between the diusion of the polymer and the strength of the gel network. This model is made by using the Rouse model for the gel network and the tracer polymer.<br/>The overdamped Langevin equation is then used to nd a set...

Diffusion in a polymeric environment

Cells of the most common organisms like plants and animals are filled with polymeric networks that fulfil important functions of the cell. There is however no analytically solvable model that describes diffusion in such a cell. This thesis presents a model for diffusion in polymeric environments, and some predictions about the behaviour of the...