3 papers
cond-mat.soft2025
Line Tension Reshapes Nucleation at Surface Edges: A Generalized Theory for Nanopore Activation
Yanchen Wu, Martin Z. Bazant, Allan S. Myerson +1
Heterogeneous nucleation at surface edges is pervasive across nature and industry, yet the role of line tension, arising from asymmetric capillary interactions at geometric singula…
physics.chem-ph2025
Mechanistic Modeling of Lipid Nanoparticle (LNP) Precipitation via Population Balance Equations (PBEs)
Sunkyu Shin, Cedric Devos, Aniket Pradip Udepurkar +3
Lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) are precisely engineered drug delivery carriers commonly produced through controlled mixing processes, such as nanoprecipitation. Since their delivery ef…
q-bio.MN2025
Emergent kinetics of in vitro transcription from interactions of T7 RNA polymerase and DNA
Nathan M. Stover, Marieke De Bock, Julie Chen +4
The in vitro transcription reaction (IVT) is of growing importance for the manufacture of RNA vaccines and therapeutics. While the kinetics of the microscopic steps of this reactio…