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How Influenza's Spike Motor Works
Falko Ziebert, Igor M. Kulić
While often believed to be a passive agent that merely exploits its host's metabolism, influenza virus has recently been shown to actively move across glycan-coated surfaces. This…
Crunching Biofilament Rings
Julien Fierling, Martin Michael Müller, Hervé Mohrbach +2
We discuss a curious example for the collective mechanical behavior of coupled non-linear monomer units entrapped in a circular filament. Within a simple model we elucidate how mul…
Confotronic Dynamics of Tubular Lattices
Osman Kahraman, Hervé Mohrbach, Martin Michael Müller +1
Tubular lattices are ubiquitous in nature and technology. Microtubules and nanotubes of all kinds act as important pillars of biological cells and the man-made nano-world. We show…
Helices at Interfaces
Gi-Moon Nam, Nam-Kyung Lee, Hervé Mohrbach +2
Helically coiled filaments are a frequent motif in nature. In situations commonly encountered in experiments coiled helices are squeezed flat onto two dimensional surfaces. Under s…
Semi-classical buckling of stiff polymers
Marc Emanuel, Hervé Mohrbach, Mehmet Sayar +2
A quantitative theory of the buckling of a worm like chain based on a semi-classical approximation of the partition function is presented. The contribution of thermal fluctuations…