4 papers
Entropy-Driven Initiation and Cellular Uptake Mediated by Viscoelastic Cytoskeleton: A Kinetic Phase Diagram from Onsager Variational Principle
Jinjie Liu, Zhong-Can Ou-Yang, Hao Wu
A fundamental question in receptor-mediated endocytosis remains unanswered: what initial driving force brings ligands and receptors into close proximity? While previous models assu…
Liquid Crystal Theory of Biomembranes
Zhong-Can Ou-Yang, Tao Xu
Biomembranes, primarily composed of lipid bilayers, are not merely passive barriers but dynamic and complex materials whose shapes are governed by the principles of soft matter phy…
Electrostatic-Elastic Softening and Ultraviolet Instability Driven by Non-DLVO Interactions in Charged Colloidal Crystals
Hao Wu, Zhong-Can Ou-Yang
Colloidal crystals permeated by mobile ions exhibit a coupling between electrostatic and elastic degrees of freedom that renormalizes the effective screening length and induces wav…
Anisotropic Electrostatic-Elastic Softening and Stability in Charged Colloidal Crystals
Hao Wu, Zhong-Can Ou-Yang
Charged colloidal crystals exhibit a subtle interplay between electrostatic screening and elastic deformation. When an isotropic electrostatic volumetric softening acts on an aniso…