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Beyond Pairwise: Higher-order physical interactions affect phase separation in multi-component liquids
Chengjie Luo, Yicheng Qiang, David Zwicker
Phase separation, crucial for spatially segregating biomolecules in cells, is well-understood in the simple case of a few components with pairwise interactions. Yet, biological cel…
Theory of Elastic Microphase Separation
Yicheng Qiang, Chengjie Luo, David Zwicker
Elastic microphase separation refers to equilibrium patterns that form by phase separation in elastic gels. Recent experiments revealed a continuous phase transition from the homog…
Nucleation of chemically active droplets
Noah Ziethen, Jan Kirschbaum, David Zwicker
Driven chemical reactions can control the macroscopic properties of droplets, like their size. Such active droplets are critical in structuring the interior of biological cells. Ce…
Memory capacity of adaptive flow networks
Komal Bhattacharyya, David Zwicker, Karen Alim
Biological flow networks adapt their network morphology to optimise flow while being exposed to external stimuli from different spatial locations in their environment. These adapti…
Effective simulations of interacting active droplets
Ajinkya Kulkarni, Estefania Vidal-Henriquez, David Zwicker
Droplets form a cornerstone of the spatiotemporal organization of biomolecules in cells. These droplets are controlled using physical processes like chemical reactions and imposed…
The intertwined physics of active chemical reactions and phase separation
David Zwicker
Phase separation is the thermodynamic process that explains how droplets form in multicomponent fluids. These droplets can provide controlled compartments to localize chemical reac…
Controlling biomolecular condensates via chemical reactions
Jan Kirschbaum, David Zwicker
Biomolecular condensates are small droplets forming spontaneously in biological cells via phase separation. They play a role in many cellular processes, but it is unclear how cells…
Cavitation controls droplet sizes in elastic media
Estefania Vidal-Henriquez, David Zwicker
Biological cells use droplets to separate components and spatially control their interior. Experiments demonstrate that the complex, crowded cellular environment affects the drople…
Elastic stresses reverse Ostwald ripening
Kathryn A. Rosowski, Estefania Vidal-Henriquez, David Zwicker +2
When liquid droplets nucleate and grow in a polymer network, compressive stresses can significantly increase their internal pressure, reaching values that far exceed the Laplace pr…
Theory of droplet ripening in stiffness gradients
Estefania Vidal-Henriquez, David Zwicker
Liquid-liquid phase separation is an important mechanism for compartmentalizing the cell's cytoplasm, allowing the dynamic organization of the components necessary for survival. Ho…
Physics of Active Emulsions
Christoph A. Weber, David Zwicker, Frank Jülicher +1
Phase separating systems that are maintained away from thermodynamic equilibrium via molecular processes represent a class of active systems, which we call active emulsions. These…