216 citations
Counting papers with at most 25 authors, so collaboration author lists do not stand in for the people here.
- Technische Universität DresdenDE46 papers
- Linköping UniversitySE15 papers
- University of FribourgCH15 papers
- University of Nebraska–LincolnUS15 papers
- Johannes Gutenberg University MainzDE10 papers
- University of AugsburgDE10 papers
- Heinrich Heine University DüsseldorfDE9 papers
- Bulgarian Academy of SciencesBG7 papers
- Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials ResearchDE7 papers
- Center for Advancing Electronics DresdenDE6 papers
- Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFR6 papers
- Institute of PhysicsPL6 papers
133 papers
Strain-stiffening critical exponents of fiber networks under uniaxial deformation
Atharva Pandit, Fred C. MacKintosh, Abhinav Sharma
Disordered fiber networks exhibit a floppy to rigid mechanical phase transition as a function of connectivity. Sub-isostatically connected networks can undergo this transition via…
Riding the Wave: Polymers in Time-dependent Nonequilibrium Baths
Bhavesh Valecha, Jens-Uwe Sommer, Abhinav Sharma
Directed transport is a characteristic feature of numerous biological systems in response to signals such as nutrient and chemical gradients. These signals often depend on time owi…
Routes to the density profile and structural inconsistency
S. M. Tschopp, H. Vahid, J. M. Brader
Classical density functional theory (DFT) is the primary method for investigations of inhomogeneous fluids in external fields. It requires the excess Helmholtz free energy function…
Cation accumulation drives the preferential partitioning of DNA in an aqueous two-phase system
Hiroki Sakuta, Yuki Akamine, Akari Kamo +4
Mixtures of polyethylene glycol (PEG) and dextran (Dex) represent a widely used class of aqueous two-phase systems (ATPS), with applications ranging from the purification of variou…
Mesoscale properties of protein clusters determine the size and nature of liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS)
Gonen Golani, Manas Seal, Mrityunjoy Kar +3
The observation of Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation (LLPS) in biological cells has dramatically shifted the paradigm that soluble proteins are uniformly dispersed in the cytoplasm or…
Stress-driven photo-reconfiguration of surface microstructures via vectorial field-guided lithography
I Komang Januariyasa, Francesco Reda, Nikolai Liubimtsev +7
Pattern formation driven by mechanical stress plays a fundamental role in shaping structural organization in both natural and human-made systems. Using light as a vectorial stimulu…
First Results on the Search for Lepton Number Violating Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay with the LEGEND-200 Experiment
H. Acharya, N. Ackermann, M. Agostini +256
The LEGEND collaboration is searching for neutrinoless double beta () decay by operating high-purity germanium detectors enriched in Ge in a low-background liquid argo…
From Heteropolymer Stiffness Distributions to Effective Homopolymers: A Conformational Analysis of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins
Yannick Witzky, Friederike Schmid, Arash Nikoubashman
Synthetic copolymers and biopolymers, such as polypeptides and double-stranded DNA, often exhibit strong variations in bending stiffness along their contour, which can significantl…
Cove-edged Chiral Graphene Nanoribbons with Chirality-Dependent Bandgap and Carrier Mobility
K. Liu, W. Zheng, S. Osella +13
Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) have garnered significant interest due to their highly customizable physicochemical properties and potential utility in nanoelectronics. Besides control…
Reversal of tracer advection and Hall drift in an interacting chiral fluid
Erik Kalz, Shashank Ravichandir, Johannes Birkenmeier +2
Chiral fluids are defined by broken mirror or time-reversal symmetry, giving rise to tensorial transport coefficients with antisymmetric components. A key example is the odd mobili…
Intelligent Soft Matter: Towards Embodied Intelligence
Vladimir A. Baulin, Achille Giacometti, Dmitry Fedosov +24
Intelligent soft matter stands at the intersection of materials science, physics, and cognitive science, promising to change how we design and interact with materials. This transfo…
Exploring the role of hydrodynamic interactions in spherically-confined drying colloidal suspensions
Mayukh Kundu, Kritika Kritika, Yashraj M. Wani +2
We study the distribution of colloidal particles confined in drying spherical droplets using both dynamic density functional theory (DDFT) and particle-based simulations. In partic…
Magnetically induced deformation of isotropic magneto-active elastomers and its relation to the magnetorheological effect
Mehran Roghani, Dirk Romeis, Gašper Glavan +3
Can isotropic Magneto-Active Elastomers (MAEs) undergo giant magnetically induced deformations and exhibit huge magnetorheological effects simultaneously? In this experimental and…
Dynamic Wetting by Concentrated Granular Suspensions
Reza Azizmalayeri, Peyman Rostami, Thomas Witzmann +2
Many functional materials, such as paints and inks used in applications like coating and 3D printing, are concentrated granular suspensions. In such systems, the contact line dynam…
Coalescence of viscoelastic drops on a solid substrate
Peyman Rostami, Alexander Erb, Reza Azizmalayeri +3
This study investigated the coalescence of polymer solution drops on the solid substrates. When two drops meet at their contact line on a substrate, the liquid bridge connecting th…
Transport of molecules via polymerization in chemical gradients
Shashank Ravichandir, Bhavesh Valecha, Pietro Luigi Muzzeddu +2
The transport of molecules for chemical reactions is critically important in various cellular biological processes. Despite thermal diffusion being prevalent in many biochemical pr…
Confined active particles with spatially dependent Lorentz force: an odd twist to the "best Fokker-Planck approximation"
René Wittmann, Iman Abdoli, Abhinav Sharma +1
We derive a version of the so-called "best Fokker-Planck approximation" (BFPA) to describe the spatial properties of interacting active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particles (AOUPs) in arbi…
Combining integral equation closures with force density functional theory for the study of inhomogeneous fluids
S. M. Tschopp, H. Vahid, A. Sharma +1
Classical density functional theory (DFT) is a powerful framework to study inhomogeneous fluids. Its standard form is based on the knowledge of a generating free energy functional.…
Effects of Ligand vs. Linker on Phase Behavior and Mechanical Properties of Nanoparticle Gels
Qizan Chen, Dinesh Sundaravadivelu Devarajan, Arash Nikoubashman +2
Nanoparticle gels have attracted considerable attention due to their highly tunable properties. One strategy for producing nanoparticle gels involves using strong local attractions…
Active Transport of Cargo-Carrying and Interconnected Chiral Particles
Bhavesh Valecha, Hossein Vahid, Pietro Luigi Muzzeddu +2
Directed motion up a concentration gradient is crucial for the survival and maintenance of numerous biological systems, such as sperms moving towards an egg during fertilization or…
The Dance of Odd-Diffusive Particles: A Fourier Approach
Amelie Langer, Abhinav Sharma, Ralf Metzler +1
Odd-diffusive systems are characterized by transverse responses and exhibit unconventional behaviors in interacting systems. To address the dynamical interparticle rearrangements i…
Mesoscale simulations of diffusion and sedimentation in shape-anisotropic nanoparticle suspensions
Yashraj M. Wani, Penelope Grace Kovakas, Arash Nikoubashman +1
We determine the long-time self-diffusion coefficient and sedimentation coefficient for suspensions of nanoparticles with anisotropic shapes (octahedra, cubes, tetrahedra, and sphe…
Spreading of a viscoelastic drop on a solid substrate
Peyman Rostami, Mathis Fricke, Simon Schubotz +3
We study the spreading of viscous and viscoelastic drops on solid substrates with different wettability. In the early stages of spreading, we find that the viscoelastic drop spread…
Rugotaxis: Droplet motion without external energy supply
Panagiotis E. Theodorakis, Sergei A. Egorov, Andrey Milchev
Nano-patterned substrates offer possibilities for controlling the motion of fluids without external energy supply in novel technologies in microfluidics, coatings, etc. Here, we re…