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most citedCorrelated diffusion of membrane proteins and their effect on membrane viscosity

87 citations · 331 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cond-mat.soft2025

Enhancement and Suppression of Active Particle Movement Due to Membrane Deformations

Adam Hitin Bialus, Bhargav Rallabandi, Naomi Oppenheimer

Microswimmers and active colloids often move in confined systems, including those involving interfaces. Such interfaces, especially at the microscale, may deform in response to the…

cond-mat.soft2025★ 1 cited

Dynamical Spreading and Memory Retention Under Power Law Potential

Ido Fanto, Yuval Rosenblum, Ori Harel +2

We study the overdamped dynamic spreading of a suspension of particles under a repulsive power law potential. We predict that the suspension spreads in a self-similar form, with it…

cond-mat.soft2024

Hydrodynamics of molecular rotors in lipid membranes

Vinny C. Suja, Naomi Oppenheimer, Howard A. Stone

Molecular rotors form twisted conformations upon photoexcitation, with their fluorescent relaxation time serving as a measure of viscosity. They have been used to assess membrane v…

cond-mat.soft2023

Hamiltonian Dynamics and Structural States of Two-Dimensional Microswimmers

Yuval Shoham, Naomi Oppenheimer

We show that a two-dimensional system of flocking microswimmers interacting hydrodynamically can be expressed using a Hamiltonian formalism. The Hamiltonian depends strictly on the…

cond-mat.soft2023

Compact expansion of a repulsive suspension

Matan Yah Ben Zion, Naomi Oppenheimer

Short-range repulsion governs the dynamics of matter from atoms to animals. Using theory, simulations, and experiments, we find that an ensemble of repulsive particles spreads comp…

cond-mat.soft2021★ 47 cited

Hyperuniformity and phase enrichment in vortex and rotor assemblies

Naomi Oppenheimer, David B. Stein, Matan Yah Ben Zion +1

Ensembles of particles rotating in a two-dimensional fluid can exhibit chaotic dynamics yet develop signatures of hidden order. Such "rotors" are found in the natural world spannin…

physics.flu-dyn2020★ 14 cited

Vortex Flows and Streamline Topology in Curved Biological Membranes

Rickmoy Samanta, Naomi Oppenheimer

When considering flows in biological membranes, they are usually treated as flat, though more often than not, they are curved surfaces, even extremely curved, as in the case of the…

cond-mat.soft2019★ 56 cited

Fast crystallization of rotating membrane proteins

Naomi Oppenheimer, David B. Stein, Michael J. Shelley

We examine the interactions between actively rotating proteins moving in a membrane. Experimental evidence suggests that such rotor proteins, like the ATP synthases of the inner mi…

cond-mat.soft2018★ 2 cited

Surfing its own wave: hydroelasticity of a particle near a membrane

Bhargav Rallabandi, Naomi Oppenheimer, Matan Yah Ben Zion +1

We show using theory and experiments that a small particle moving along an elastic membrane through a viscous fluid is repelled from the membrane due to hydro-elastic forces. The v…

cond-mat.soft2015★ 18 cited

A shapeable material without plastic deformation

Naomi Oppenheimer, Thomas A. Witten

Randomly crumpled sheets have shape memory. In order to understand the basis of this form of memory, we simulate triangular lattices of springs whose lengths are altered to create…

cond-mat.soft2012★ 6 cited

Anomalously fast kinetics of lipid monolayer buckling

Naomi Oppenheimer, Haim Diamant, Thomas. A. Witten

We re-examine previous observations of folding kinetics of compressed lipid monolayers in light of the accepted mechanical buckling mechanism recently proposed [L. Pocivavsek et al…

cond-mat.soft2011★ 45 cited

Dynamics of membranes with immobile inclusions

Naomi Oppenheimer, Haim Diamant

Cell membranes are anchored to the cytoskeleton via immobile inclusions. We investigate the effect of such anchors on the in-plane dynamics of a fluid membrane and mobile inclusion…

cond-mat.soft2010★ 55 cited

Correlated dynamics of inclusions in a supported membrane

Naomi Oppenheimer, Haim Diamant

The hydrodynamic theory of heterogeneous fluid membranes is extended to the case of a membrane adjacent to a solid substrate. We derive the coupling diffusion coefficients of pairs…

cond-mat.soft2008★ 87 cited

Correlated diffusion of membrane proteins and their effect on membrane viscosity

Naomi Oppenheimer, Haim Diamant

We extend the Saffman theory of membrane hydrodynamics to account for the correlated motion of membrane proteins, along with the effect of protein concentration on that correlation…