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Turbulent beginnings by Fraden, Seth

“…An inspired experimental approach sheds light on the formation of active turbulence in a system of microtubules and molecular motors. The emergent scaling…”
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Self-organized dynamics and the transition to turbulence of confined active nematics by Opathalage, Achini, Norton, Michael M., Juniper, Michael P. N., Langeslay, Blake, Aghvami, S. Ali, Fraden, Seth, Dogic, Zvonimir

“…We study how confinement transforms the chaotic dynamics of bulk microtubule-based active nematics into regular spatiotemporal patterns. For weak confinements…”
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Programmable icosahedral shell system for virus trapping by Sigl, Christian, Willner, Elena M., Engelen, Wouter, Kretzmann, Jessica A., Sachenbacher, Ken, Liedl, Anna, Kolbe, Fenna, Wilsch, Florian, Aghvami, S. Ali, Protzer, Ulrike, Hagan, Michael F., Fraden, Seth, Dietz, Hendrik

“…Broad-spectrum antiviral platforms that can decrease or inhibit viral infection would alleviate many threats to global public health. Nonetheless, effective…”
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Transition from turbulent to coherent flows in confined three-dimensional active fluids by Wu, Kun-Ta, Hishamunda, Jean Bernard, Chen, Daniel T. N., DeCamp, Stephen J., Chang, Ya-Wen, Fernández-Nieves, Alberto, Fraden, Seth, Dogic, Zvonimir

“…Transport of fluid through a pipe is essential for the operation of macroscale machines and microfluidic devices. Conventional fluids only flow in response to…”
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Testing Turing's theory of morphogenesis in chemical cells by Tompkins, Nathan, Li, Ning, Girabawe, Camille, Heymann, Michael, Ermentrout, G. Bard, Epstein, Irving R., Fraden, Seth

“…Alan Turing, in "The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis" [Turing AM (1952) Philos Trans R Soc Lond 237(641):37—72], described how, in circular arrays of identical…”
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An Arduino-based constant pressure fluid pump by Lupinski, Theodore, Ludwig, Markus, Fraden, Seth, Tompkins, Nathan

“…Constant pressure pumps are an invaluable yet underutilized resource for microfluidic flow systems. In particular, constant pressure pumps are able to…”
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Rapid prototyping of cyclic olefin copolymer (COC) microfluidic devices by Aghvami, S. Ali, Opathalage, Achini, Zhang, Z.K., Ludwig, Markus, Heymann, Michael, Norton, Michael, Wilkins, Niya, Fraden, Seth

“…•Low cost prototyping of thermoplastic microfluidics.•Movies illustrate all process steps.•Surface treatments render channels hydrophilic, fluorophilic or…”
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Partition, Reaction, and Diffusion Coefficients of Bromine in Elastomeric Polydimethylsiloxane by Moustaka, Maria Eleni, Norton, Michael M, Blanc, Baptiste, Horvath, Viktor, Aghvami, S. Ali, Fraden, Seth

“…Experiments and models were used to determine the extent to which aqueous bromine permeated into, and reacted with, the elastomer polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)…”
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Impact of PDMS-Based Microfluidics on Belousov–Zhabotinsky Chemical Oscillators by Sheehy, James, Hunter, Ian, Moustaka, Maria Eleni, Aghvami, S. Ali, Fahmy, Youssef, Fraden, Seth

“…Sub-nanoliter volumes of the Belousov–Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction are sealed in microfluidic devices made from polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS). Bromine, which is a…”
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Simple, robust storage of drops and fluids in a microfluidic device by Boukellal, Hakim, Selimović, Seila, Jia, Yanwei, Cristobal, Galder, Fraden, Seth

“…We describe a single microfluidic device and two methods for the passive storage of aqueous drops in a continuous stream of oil without any external control…”
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Control and Measurement of the Phase Behavior of Aqueous Solutions Using Microfluidics by Shim, Jung-uk, Cristobal, Galder, Link, Darren R, Thorsen, Todd, Jia, Yanwei, Piattelli, Katie, Fraden, Seth

“…A microfluidic device denoted the Phase Chip has been designed to measure and manipulate the phase diagram of multicomponent fluid mixtures. The Phase Chip…”
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Giant Volume Change of Active Gels under Continuous Flow by Zhang, Ye, Zhou, Ning, Li, Ning, Sun, Megan, Kim, Dongshin, Fraden, Seth, Epstein, Irving R, Xu, Bing

“…While living systems have developed highly efficient ways to convert chemical energy (e.g., ATP hydrolysis) to mechanical motion (e.g., movement of muscle), it…”
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Room-temperature serial crystallography using a kinetically optimized microfluidic device for protein crystallization and on-chip X-ray diffraction by Heymann, Michael, Opthalage, Achini, Wierman, Jennifer L, Akella, Sathish, Szebenyi, Doletha M E, Gruner, Sol M, Fraden, Seth

“…An emulsion-based serial crystallographic technology has been developed, in which nanolitre-sized droplets of protein solution are encapsulated in oil and…”
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Using Microfluidics to Decouple Nucleation and Growth of Protein Crystals by Shim, Jung-uk, Cristobal, Galder, Link, Darren R, Thorsen, Todd, Fraden, Seth

“…A high-throughput, low-volume microfluidic device has been designed to decouple the physical processes of protein crystal nucleation and growth. This device,…”
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Post-Self-Assembly Cross-Linking of Molecular Nanofibers for Oscillatory Hydrogels by Zhang, Ye, Li, Ning, Delgado, Jorge, Gao, Yuan, Kuang, Yi, Fraden, Seth, Epstein, Irving R, Xu, Bing

“…After a polymerizable hydrogelator self-assembles in water to form molecular nanofibers, post-self-assembly cross-linking allows the catalyst of the…”
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Measuring the Nucleation Rate of Lysozyme using Microfluidics by Selimović, Šeila, Jia, Yanwei, Fraden, Seth

“…We employ the PhaseChip, a (poly)dimethylsiloxane (PDMS) microfluidic device, for statistical studies of protein crystal nucleation. The PhaseChip is designed…”
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Entropically driven microphase transitions in mixtures of colloidal rods and spheres by Fraden, Seth, Adams, Marie, Dogic, Zvonimir, Keller, Sarah L

“…Although the idea that entropy alone is sufficient to produce an ordered state is an old one in colloid science, the notion remains counter-intuitive and it is…”
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Smectic Phase in a Colloidal Suspension of Semiflexible Virus Particles by Dogic, Zvonimir, Fraden, Seth

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Nematic phase transitions in mixtures of thin and thick colloidal rods by Purdy, Kirstin R, Varga, Szabolcs, Galindo, Amparo, Jackson, George, Fraden, Seth

“…We report experimental measurements of the phase behavior of mixtures of thin (charged semiflexible fd virus) and thick (fd-PEG, fd virus covalently coated…”
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Functional patterning of PDMS microfluidic devices using integrated chemo-masks by Romanowsky, Mark B, Heymann, Michael, Abate, Adam R, Krummel, Amber T, Fraden, Seth, Weitz, David A

“…Microfluidic devices can be molded easily from PDMS using soft lithography. However, the softness of the resulting microchannels makes it difficult to…”
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