3 papers
cond-mat.soft2023
Morphological Control of Bundled Actin Networks Subject to Fixed-Mass Depletion
James Clarke, Lauren Melcher, Anne D. Crowell +10
Depletion interactions are thought to significantly contribute to the organization of intracellular structures in the crowded cytosol. The strength of depletion interactions depend…
cond-mat.soft2023
Timed material self-assembly controlled by circadian clock proteins
Gregor Leech, Lauren Melcher, Michelle Chiu +10
Active biological molecules present a powerful, yet largely untapped, opportunity to impart autonomous regulation to materials. Because these systems can function robustly to regul…
cond-mat.soft2021
Sustained Order-Disorder Transitions in a Model Colloidal System Driven by Rhythmic Crosslinking
Lauren Melcher, Elisabeth Rennert, Jennifer Ross +3
Biological systems have the unique ability to self-organize and generate autonomous motion and work. Motivated by this, we investigate a 2D model colloidal network that can repeate…