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Collective deformation modes promote fibrous self-assembly in protein-like particles
Hugo Le Roy, M. Mert Terzi, Martin lenz
The self-assembly of particles into organized structures is a key feature of living organisms and a major engineering challenge. While it may proceed through the binding of perfect…
Transverse fluctuations control the assembly of semiflexible filaments
Valerio Sorichetti, Martin Lenz
The kinetics of the assembly of semiflexible filaments through end-to-end annealing is key to the structure of the cytoskeleton, but is not understood. We analyze this problem thro…
Runaway Transition in Irreversible Polymer Condensation with Cyclisation
Maria Panoukidou, Simon Weir, Valerio Sorichetti +3
The process of polymer condensation, i.e. the formation of bonds between reactive end-groups, is ubiquitous in both industry and biology. Here we study generic systems undergoing p…
Generic Stress Rectification in Nonlinear Elastic Media
Félix Benoist, Guglielmo Saggiorato, Martin Lenz
Stress propagation in nonlinear media is crucial in cell biology, where molecular motors exert anisotropic force dipoles on the fibrous cytoskeleton. While the force dipoles can be…
Valence can control the nonexponential viscoelastic relaxation of multivalent reversible gels
Hugo Le Roy, Jake Song, David Lundberg +5
Gels made of telechelic polymers connected by reversible crosslinkers are a versatile design platform for biocompatible viscoelastic materials. Their linear response to a step stra…
Twist-induced local curvature of filaments in DNA toroids
Luca Barberi, Martin Lenz
DNA toroidal bundles form upon condensation of one or multiple DNA filaments. DNA filaments in toroidal bundles are hexagonally packed, and collectively twist around the center lin…