2 papers
cond-mat.soft2024★ 1 cited
Critical transition between intensive and extensive active droplets
Jonathan Bauermann, Giacomo Bartolucci, Job Boekhoven +2
Emulsions ripen with an average droplet size increasing in time. In chemically active emulsions, coarsening can be absent, leading to a non-equilibrium steady state with mono-dispe…
physics.chem-ph2022
Selection of prebiotic oligonucleotides by cyclic phase separation
Giacomo Bartolucci, Adriana Calaça Serrão, Philipp Schwintek +7
The emergence of functional oligonucleotides on early Earth required a molecular selection mechanism to screen for specific sequences with prebiotic functions. Cyclic processes suc…