Search Results - "Sknepnek, Rastko"
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Dense active matter model of motion patterns in confluent cell monolayers
Published in Nature communications (16-03-2020)“…Epithelial cell monolayers show remarkable displacement and velocity correlations over distances of ten or more cell sizes that are reminiscent of supercooled…”
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Linear viscoelastic properties of the vertex model for epithelial tissues
Published in PLoS computational biology (19-05-2022)“…Epithelial tissues act as barriers and, therefore, must repair themselves, respond to environmental changes and grow without compromising their integrity…”
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Active Vertex Model for cell-resolution description of epithelial tissue mechanics
Published in PLoS computational biology (01-06-2017)“…We introduce an Active Vertex Model (AVM) for cell-resolution studies of the mechanics of confluent epithelial tissues consisting of tens of thousands of…”
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Defect dynamics in active nematics
Published in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences (28-11-2014)“…Topological defects are distinctive signatures of liquid crystals. They profoundly affect the viscoelastic behaviour of the fluid by constraining the…”
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Generating active T1 transitions through mechanochemical feedback
Published in eLife (11-04-2023)“…Convergence-extension in embryos is controlled by chemical and mechanical signalling. A key cellular process is the exchange of neighbours via T1 transitions…”
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Platonic and Archimedean geometries in multicomponent elastic membranes
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (15-03-2011)“…Large crystalline molecular shells, such as some viruses and fullerenes, buckle spontaneously into icosahedra. Meanwhile multicomponent microscopic shells…”
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Linear viscoelastic response of the vertex model with internal and external dissipation: Normal modes analysis
Published in Physical review research (01-02-2023)“…We use the normal mode formalism to study the shear rheology of the vertex model for epithelial tissue mechanics in the overdamped linear response regime. We…”
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Mechanical model of blebbing in nuclear lamin meshworks
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (26-02-2013)“…Much of the structural stability of the nucleus comes from meshworks of intermediate filament proteins known as lamins forming the inner layer of the nuclear…”
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Thermally Active Hybridization Drives the Crystallization of DNA-Functionalized Nanoparticles
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (12-06-2013)“…The selectivity of DNA recognition inspires an elegant protocol for designing versatile nanoparticle (NP) assemblies. We use molecular dynamics simulations to…”
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A Quantitative Description of the Binding Equilibria of para-Substituted Aniline Ligands and CdSe Quantum Dots
Published in Journal of physical chemistry. C (30-12-2010)“…This paper describes the use of 1H NMR spectroscopy to measure the equilibrium constants for the solution-phase binding of two para-substituted aniline…”
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Wrinkle patterns in active viscoelastic thin sheets
Published in Physical review research (18-02-2020)“…We show that a viscoelastic thin sheet driven out of equilibrium by active structural remodeling, such as during fast growth, develops a rich variety of shapes…”
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Molecular Crystallization Controlled by pH Regulates Mesoscopic Membrane Morphology
Published in ACS nano (21-12-2012)“…Coassembled molecular structures are known to exhibit a large variety of geometries and morphologies. A grand challenge of self-assembly design is to find…”
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A Graphics Processing Unit Implementation of Coulomb Interaction in Molecular Dynamics
Published in Journal of chemical theory and computation (12-10-2010)“…We report a GPU implementation in HOOMD Blue of long-range electrostatic interactions based on the orientation-averaged Ewald sum scheme, introduced by Yakub…”
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Universality of liquid-gas Mott transitions at finite temperatures
Published in Physical review letters (18-01-2008)“…We explain, in a consistent manner, the set of seemingly conflicting experiments on the finite temperature Mott critical point, and demonstrate that the Mott…”
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Orbital coupling and superconductivity in the iron pnictides
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Critical points and quenched disorder: From Harris criterion to rare regions and smearing
Published in Physica Status Solidi (b) (01-07-2004)“…We consider the influence of quenched spatial disorder on phase transitions in classical and quantum systems. We show that rare strong disorder fluctuations…”
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Shape-Tension Coupling Produces Nematic Order in an Epithelium Vertex Model
Published in Physical review letters (01-12-2023)“…We study the vertex model for epithelial tissue mechanics extended to include coupling between the cell shapes and tensions in cell-cell junctions. This…”
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Active swarms on a sphere
Published in Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics (01-02-2015)“…We show that coupling to curvature nontrivially affects collective motion in active systems, leading to motion patterns not observed in flat space. Using…”
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Anisotropy of the pairing gap of FeAs-based superconductors induced by spin fluctuations
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Confinement-Induced Transition between Wavelike Collective Cell Migration Modes
Published in Physical review letters (26-04-2019)“…The structural and functional organization of biological tissues relies on the intricate interplay between chemical and mechanical signaling. Whereas the role…”
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