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Landau theory and self-assembly of spherical nanoclusters and nanoparticles with octahedral symmetry
D. V. Chalin, S. B. Rochal
Spherical nanoclusters and nanoparticles are rising materials whose functional design provides many useful applications ranging from catalysis, molecular sensing, gas storage to dr…
Theory of morphological transformation of viral capsid shells during maturation process
O. V. Konevtsova, V. L. Lorman, S. B. Rochal
In the frame of the Landau-Ginzburg formalism we propose a minimal phenomenological model for a morphological transformation in viral capsid shells. The transformation takes place…
Structures of Spherical Viral Capsids as Quasicrystalline Tilings
O. V. Konevtsova, V. L. Lorman, S. B. Rochal
Spherical viral shells with icosahedral symmetry have been considered as quasicrystalline tilings. Similarly to known Caspar-Klug quasi-equivalence theory, the presented approach a…
Instabilities and shape variation phase transitions in tubular lipid membranes
I. Yu. Golushko, S. B. Rochal, A. Parmeggiani +1
Changes of external parameters in proximity of critical point can increase thermal fluctuations of tubular lipid membrane (TLM) and result in variation of the membrane shape. The p…
Dodecagonal spherical quasicrystals
I. A. Shevchenko, O. V. Konevtsova, S. B. Rochal
We argue that 2D dodecagonal spherical quasicrystalls (QCs) will be discovered in the nearest future and investigate how the planar QC order becomes compatible with the spherical g…
Density waves, dodecahedral geometry and structures of some spherical viral capsids
O. V. Konevtsova, S. B. Rochal, V. L. Lorman
A pentagonal order formed by 360 proteins in the bovine papilloma viral capsid and structures of some smaller viral capsids are considered from a unified point of view based on the…
Two-dimensional elasticity determines the low-frequency dynamics of single- and double-walled carbon nanotubes
S. B. Rochal, V. L. Lorman, Yu. I. Yuzyuk
We develop a continuous theory of low-frequency dynamics for nanotubes with truly two-dimensional (2D) walls constituted by single-atom monolayer. In this frame topological bending…
Bridging the Landau theory of crystallization and the cluster approach to quasicrystals
O. V. Konevtsova, S. B. Rochal, V. L. Lorman
We propose the theory which unifies the description of quasicrystal assembly thermodynamics and quasicrystal structure formation by combining the Landau theory of crystallization a…
Chiral Quasicrystalline Order and Dodecahedral Geometry in Exceptional Families of Viruses
O. V. Konevtsova, S. B. Rochal, V. L. Lorman
On the example of exceptional families of viruses we i) show the existence of a completely new type of matter organization in nanoparticles, in which the regions with a chiral pent…
Constructing quasicrystalline lattices
O. V. Konevtsova, S. B. Rochal
A new method to construct quasicrystalline lattices is proposed. It is based on Landau crystallization theory. Like well-known cut and projection methods our approach deals with N…
Density waves theory of the capsid structure of small icosahedral viruses
V. L. Lorman, S. B. Rochal
We apply Landau theory of crystallization to explain and to classify the capsid structures of small viruses with spherical topology and icosahedral symmetry. We develop an explicit…
Cytoskeleton influence on normal and tangent fluctuation modes in the red blood cells
S. B. Rochal, V. L. Lorman
We argue that the paradoxal softness of the red blood cells (RBC) in fluctuation spectra experiments is apparent. We show that the effective surface shear modulus of the RBC…