3 papers
cond-mat.soft2025
Gliding microtubules exhibit tunable collective rotation driven by chiral active forces
Madhuvanthi Guruprasad Athani, Nathan Prouse, Niranjan Sarpangala +11
How chirality propagates across scales remains an open question in many biological and synthetic systems. An especially clear manifestation of this propagation is found in in vitro…
cond-mat.soft2024
Vertex pinning and stretching of single molecule DNA in a linear polymer solution
Kunlin Ma, Caleb J. Samuel, Soumyadeep Paul +4
Trapping, linearization, and imaging of single molecule DNA is of broad interest to both biophysicists who study polymer physics and engineers who build nucleic acid analyzing meth…
cond-mat.soft2024
Controlling chaos: Periodic defect braiding in active nematics confined to a cardioid
Fereshteh L. Memarian, Derek Hammar, Md Mainul Hasan Sabbir +3
This work examines self-mixing in active nematics, a class of fluids in which mobile topological defects drive chaotic flows in a system comprised of biological filaments and molec…