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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…
Thermodynamically Consistent Phase-Field Theory Including Nearest-Neighbor Pair Correlations Explains Failure of Mean-Field Reasoning
Kristian Blom, Noah Ziethen, David Zwicker +1
Most of our current understanding of phase separation is based on ideas that disregard correlaions. Here we illuminate unexpected effects of correlations on the structure and therm…
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…
Evolved interactions stabilize many coexisting phases in multicomponent liquids
David Zwicker, Liedewij Laan
Phase separation has emerged as an essential concept for the spatial organization inside biological cells. However, despite the clear relevance to virtually all physiological funct…