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Self-avoiding tethered surfaces are always flat
A. D. Chen, M. C. Gandikota, M. J. Kim +1
The scaling behavior of fully flexible elastic tethered surfaces has been debated for decades. Some theories predict that self-avoiding surfaces would crumple in the absence of ben…
MIPS is a Maxwell fluid with an extended and non-monotonic crossover
José Martín-Roca, Chantal Valeriani, Kristian Thijssen +2
Understanding the mechanical properties of active suspensions is crucial for their potential applications in materials engineering. Among the various phenomena in active matter tha…
Spontaneous crumpling of active spherical shells
M. C. Gandikota, Shibananda Das, A. Cacciuto
The existence of a crumpled phase for self-avoiding elastic surfaces was postulated more than three decades ago using simple Flory-like scaling arguments. Despite much effort, its…
The crumpling transition of active tethered membranes
M. C. Gandikota, A. Cacciuto
We perform numerical simulations of active ideal and self-avoiding tethered membranes. Passive ideal membranes with bending interactions are known to exhibit a continuous crumpling…
Rectification of Confined Soft Vesicles Containing Active Particles
M. C. Gandikota, A. Cacciuto
One of the most promising features of active systems is that they can extract energy from their environment and convert it to mechanical work. Self propelled particles enable recti…
Effective forces between active polymers
M. C. Gandikota, A. Cacciuto
The characterization of the interactions between two fully flexible self-avoiding polymers is one of the classic and most important problems in polymer physics. In this paper we me…