Table A1.
Mean escape time (τ) of a given molecule, errors and total traveling distance of the confined molecule in a spherical cavity (cavity diameter D of 1 nm and 10 nm) for different entrance–escape hole diameters (h) calculated by the diffusion and the non-interactive random walk models.
| h (nm) | Cavity Diameter D = 1 nm | Cavity Diameter D = 10 nm | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diffusion | Random Walk | Diffusion | Random Walk | |||||||
| τ (s) | τ (s) | Error (s) | Distance (nm) | Error (nm) | τ(s) | τ (s) | Error (s) | Distance (nm) | Error (nm) | |
| 0.3 | 3.98 × 10−14 | 5.51 × 10−11 | 1.7 × 10−12 | 35.5 | 1.1 | 3.98 × 10−11 | 5.57 × 10−8 | 1.7 × 10−9 | 35,931 | 1133 |
| 0.5 | 2.39 × 10−14 | 1.91 × 10−11 | 5 × 10−13 | 12.4 | 0.3 | 2.39 × 10-11 | 2.19 × 10−8 | 7 × 10−10 | 14,151 | 465 |
| 1 | 1.19 × 10-11 | 4.93 × 10−9 | 1.6 × 10−10 | 3182 | 107 | |||||
| 2 | 5.98 × 10-12 | 1.28 × 10−9 | 4 × 10−11 | 822 | 26 | |||||
| 5 | 2.39 × 10−12 | 1.90 × 10−10 | 5 × 10−12 | 128 | 4 | |||||