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Self-assembly of liquid crystal block copolymer PEG-b-smectic polymer in pure state and in dilute aqueous solution
B. Xu, R. Pinol, M. Nono-Djamen +5
A series of amphiphilic LC block copolymers, in which the hydrophobic block is a smectic polymer poly(4-methoxyphenyl 4-(6-acryloyloxy-hexyloxy)-benzoate) (PA6ester1) and the hydro…
Smectic Polymer Vesicles
Lin Jia, Amin Cao, Daniel Levy +5
Polymer vesicles are stable robust vesicles made from block copolymer amphiphiles. Recent progress in the chemical design of block copolymers opens up the exciting possibility of c…
Pushing off the walls: a mechanism of cell motility in confinement
R. J. Hawkins, M. Piel, G. Faure-Andre +4
We propose a novel mechanism of cell motility, which relies on the coupling of actin polymerization at the cell membrane to geometric confinement. We consider a polymerizing viscoe…
Equilibrium properties of a grafted polyelectrolyte with explicit counterions
K. Jayasree, P. Ranjith, Madan Rao +1
We study the equilibrium conformations of a grafted polyelectrolyte (PE) in the presence of explicit counterions (CI) using Monte Carlo simulations. The interplay between attractiv…
Mechanical response of active gels
T. B. Liverpool, M. C. Marchetti, J. -F. Joanny +1
We study a model of an active gel of cross-linked semiflexible filaments with additional active linkers such as myosin II clusters. We show that the coupling of the elasticity of t…
Generic phase diagram of active polar films
R. Voituriez, J. F. Joanny, J. Prost
We study theoretically the phase diagram of compressible active polar gels such as the actin network of eukaryotic cells. Using generalized hydrodynamics equations, we perform a li…