3 papers
physics.bio-ph2003
Mechano-chemical coupling in growth process of actin gels and a symmetry breaking instability
Ken Sekimoto, Jacques Prost, Frank Julicher +2
It has been observed experimentally that the actin gel grown from spherical beads coated with polymerization enzymes spontaneously breaks the symmetry of its spherical shape, and y…
cond-mat.stat-mech2000
Irreversibility resulting from contact with a heat bath caused by the finiteness of the system
K. Sato, K. Sekimoto, T. Hondou +1
When a small dynamical system that is initially in contact with a heat bath is detached from this heat bath and then caused to undergo a quasi-static adiabatic processes, the stati…
physics.bio-ph2000
Contraction of a Bundle of Actin Filaments: 50 years after Szent-Gyorgyi
Ken Sekimoto, Hatsumi Nakazawa
Biological systems are among the most challenging subjects for theoretical physicists, as well as experimentalists or simulationists. Physical principles should have been both cons…