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cond-mat.soft2025

Diffusioosmosis of electrolyte solutions in uniformly charged channels

Evgeny S. Asmolov, Elena F. Silkina, Olga I. Vinogradova

When the concentration of electrolyte solution varies along the channel the forces arise that drag the fluid toward the higher or lower concentration region inducing a flow termed…

cond-mat.soft2025★ 1 cited

Local Mechanical Response of Lipid Membranes to Tilt Deformation

Konstantin V. Pinigin

Using molecular dynamics, this study investigates the local elastic properties of transverse shear deformation of lipid membranes. The analysis demonstrates that transverse shear d…

cond-mat.soft2024★ 3 cited

Local stress in cylindrically curved lipid membrane: insights into local versus global lateral fluidity models

Konstantin V. Pinigin

Lipid membranes, fundamental to cellular function, undergo various mechanical deformations. Accurate modeling of these processes necessitates a thorough understanding of membrane e…

cond-mat.soft2024★ 4 cited

Diffusiophoresis of ionic catalytic particles

Evgeny S. Asmolov, Olga I. Vinogradova

A migration of charged particles relative to a solvent, caused by a gradient of salt concentration and termed a diffusiophoresis, is of much interest being exploited in many fields…

cond-mat.soft2023★ 10 cited

Electrophoresis of ions and electrolyte conductivity: from bulk to nanochannels

Olga I. Vinogradova, Elena F. Silkina

When electrolyte solutions are confined in micro- and nanochannels their conductivity is significantly different from those in a bulk phase. Here we revisit the theory of this phen…

cond-mat.soft2023★ 16 cited

Slippery and mobile hydrophobic electrokinetics: from single walls to nanochannels

Olga I. Vinogradova, Elena F. Silkina, Evgeny S. Asmolov

We discuss how the wettability of solid walls impacts electrokinetic properties, from large systems to a nanoscale. We show in particular how could the hydrophobic slippage, couple…

cond-mat.soft2023★ 4 cited

Limiting propulsion of ionic microswimmers

Evgeny S. Asmolov, Olga I. Vinogradova

Self-propulsion of catalytic Janus swimmers in electrolyte solutions is induced by inhomogeneous ion release from their surface. Here, we consider the experimentally relevant cases…

cond-mat.soft2022★ 28 cited

Transport of ions in hydrophobic nanotubes

Olga I. Vinogradova, Elena F. Silkina, Evgeny S. Asmolov

The theory of electrokinetic ion transport in cylindrical channels of a fixed surface charge density is revisited. Attention is focused on impact of the hydrophobic slippage and mo…

cond-mat.soft2022★ 22 cited

Determination of Elastic Parameters of Lipid Membranes with Molecular Dynamics: A Review of Approaches and Theoretical Aspects

Konstantin V. Pinigin

Lipid membranes are abundant in living organisms, where they constitute a surrounding shell for cells and their organelles. There are many circumstances in which the deformations o…

cond-mat.soft2022★ 10 cited

Local stress and elastic properties of lipid membranes obtained from elastic energy variation

Maksim A. Kalutsky, Timur R. Galimzyanov, Konstantin V. Pinigin

A theory and computational method are provided for the calculation of lipid membranes elastic parameters, which overcomes the difficulties of the existing approaches and can be app…

cond-mat.soft2022★ 15 cited

Theoretical modeling of catalytic self-propulsion

Tatiana V. Nizkaya, Evgeny S. Asmolov, Olga I. Vinogradova

Self-propelling particles or microswimmers have opened a new field of investigation with both fundamental and practical perspectives. They represent very convenient model objects f…

cond-mat.soft2022★ 24 cited

Self-diffusiophoresis of Janus particles that release ions

Evgeny S. Asmolov, Tatiana V. Nizkaya, Olga I. Vinogradova

Catalytic Janus swimmers demonstrate a diffusio-phoretic motion by self-generating the gradients of concentrations and electric potential. Recent work has focused on simplified cas…

cond-mat.soft2021

Enhanced transport of ions by tuning surface properties of the nanochannel

Olga I. Vinogradova, Elena F. Silkina, Evgeny S. Asmolov

We revisit the theory of ion transport in parallel-plate channels and also discuss how the wettability of a solid and the mobility of adsorbed surface charges impact the transport…

cond-mat.soft2021★ 23 cited

Spontaneous chemical reactions between hydrogen and oxygen in nanobubbles

Vitaly B. Svetovoy

Bulk nanobubbles (NBs) generated electrochemically by short voltage pulses of alternating polarity behave differently from those produced by regular methods. Only bubbles smaller t…

cond-mat.soft2020★ 21 cited

Light-Induced Manipulation of Passive and Active Microparticles

Pooja Arya, Maren Umlandt, Joachim Jelken +5

We consider sedimented at a solid wall particles that are immersed in water containing small additives of photosensitive ionic surfactants. It is shown that illumination with an ap…

cond-mat.soft2020★ 16 cited

Electro-osmotic properties of porous permeable films

Elena F. Silkina, Naren Bag, Olga I. Vinogradova

Permeable porous coatings on a flat solid support significantly impact its electrostatic and electrokinetic properties. Existing work has focused on simplified cases, such as weakl…

cond-mat.soft2019★ 34 cited

Inertial migration of neutrally-buoyant particles in superhydrophobic channels

Tatiana V. Nizkaya, Evgeny S. Asmolov, Jens Harting +1

At finite Reynolds numbers particles migrate across flow streamlines to their equilibrium positions in microchannels. Such a migration is attributed to an inertial lift force, and…

cond-mat.soft2018★ 10 cited

Microscopic Description of Thermodynamics of Lipid Membrane at Liquid-Gel Phase Transition

Boris Kheyfets, Timur Galimzyanov, Sergei Mukhin

A microscopic model of the lipid membrane is constructed that provides analytically tractable description of the physical mechanism of the first order liquid-gel phase transition.…

cond-mat.soft2017★ 11 cited

Study of DMPS Monolayers on a Water Substrate with Laboratory X-ray Reflectometer

Aleksey M. Tikhonov, Viktor E. Asadchikov, Yurii O. Volkov +2

The molecular structure of dimyristoyl phosphatidylserine (DMPS) monolayers on a water substrate in different phase states has been investigated under normal conditions by X-ray re…

cond-mat.soft2017★ 5 cited

Laboratory X-ray Study of the Phospholipid Monolayers at the Water Surface

Viktor E. Asadchikov, Aleksey M. Tikhonov, Yurii O. Volkov +5

The possibility of laboratory X-ray reflectometry study of the structure of dimyristoyl phosphatidylserine (DMPS) phospholipid monolayers on the water surface in various phase stat…

cond-mat.soft2016★ 5 cited

Star polymers as unit cells for coarse-graining cross-linked networks

Salim R. Maduar, Taras Y. Molotilin, Olga I. Vinogradova

Reducing the complexity of cross-linked polymer networks by preserving their main macroscale properties, is key to understanding them, and a crucial issue is to relate individual p…

cond-mat.soft2016★ 22 cited

Electrophoresis of Janus Particles: a Molecular Dynamics simulation study

Taras Y. Molotilin, Vladimir Lobaskin, Olga I. Vinogradova

In this work, we use Molecular Dynamics and Lattice-Boltzmann simulations to study the properties of charged Janus particles in an electric field. We show that for relatively small…

cond-mat.soft2016★ 12 cited

Electrostatic Interactions and Electro-osmotic Properties of Semipermeable Surfaces

Salim R. Maduar, Olga I. Vinogradova

We consider two charged semipermeable membranes, which bound bulk electrolyte solutions and are separated by a thin film of salt-free liquid. Small counter-ions permeate into the g…

cond-mat.soft2015★ 24 cited

Regimes of Wetting Transitions on Superhydrophobic Textures Conditioned by Energy of Receding Contact Lines

Alexander L. Dubov, Ahmed Mourran, Martin Möller +1

We discuss an evaporation-induced wetting transition on superhydrophobic stripes, and show that depending on the elastic energy of the deformed contact line, which determines the v…