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An Assembly-Line Mechanism for In-Vitro Encapsulation of Fragmented Cargo in Virus-Like Particles
Ayesha Amjad, Irina Tsvetkova, Lena G. Lowry +4
The ability of virus shells to encapsulate a wide range of functional cargoes, especially multiple cargoes - siRNAs, enzymes, and chromophores - has made them an essential tool in…
Self-organisation of tip functionalised elongated colloidal particles
Mariana Oshima Menegon, Guido L. A. Kusters, Paul van der Schoot
Weakly attractive interactions between the tips of rod-like colloidal particles affect their liquid-crystal phase behaviour due to a subtle interplay between enthalpy and entropy.…
Compound redistribution due to droplet evaporation on a thin polymeric film: theory
Thijs W. G. van der Heijden, Anton A. Darhuber, Paul van der Schoot
A thin polymeric film in contact with a fluid body may leach low-molecular-weight compounds into the fluid. If this fluid is a small droplet, the compound concentration within the…
Directing liquid crystalline self-organization of rod-like particles through tunable attractive single tips
Andrii Repula, Mariana Oshima Menegon, Cheng Wu +2
Dispersions of rodlike colloidal particles exhibit a plethora of liquid crystalline states, including nematic, smectic A, smectic B, and columnar phases. This phase behavior can be…
Connectivity, Not Density, Dictates Percolation in Nematic Liquid Crystals of Slender Nanoparticles
Shari P. Finner, Tanja Schilling, Paul van der Schoot
We show by means of continuum theory and simulations that geometric percolation in uniaxial nematics of hard slender particles is fundamentally different from that in isotropic dis…
Continuum Percolation of Polydisperse Rods in Quadrupole Fields: Theory and Simulations
Shari P. Finner, Mihail I. Kotsev, Mark A. Miller +1
We investigate percolation in mixtures of nanorods in the presence of external fields that align or disalign the particles with the field axis. Such conditions are found in the for…