2 papers
cond-mat.soft2020
Shape and size changes of adherent elastic epithelia
Benjamin Loewe, Francesco Serafin, Suraj Shankar +2
Epithelial tissues play a fundamental role in various morphogenetic events during development and early embryogenesis. Although epithelial monolayers are often modeled as two-dimen…
cond-mat.soft2018
Topology and ground state degeneracy of tetrahedral smectic vesicles
Francesco Serafin, Mark J. Bowick, Sidney R. Nagel
Chemical design of block copolymers makes it possible to create polymer vesicles with tunable microscopic structure. Here we focus on a model of a vesicle made of smectic liquid-cr…