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Theoretical rheo-physics of silk: Intermolecular associations reduce the critical specific work for flow-induced crystallisation
Charley Schaefer, Tom C. B. McLeish
Silk is a semi-dilute solution of randomly coiled associating polypeptide chains that crystallise following the stretch-induced disruption, in the strong extensional flow of extrus…
Membraneless organelles formed by liquid-liquid phase separation increase bacterial fitness
Xin Jin, Ji-Eun Lee, Charley Schaefer +10
Liquid-liquid phase separation is emerging as a crucial phenomenon in several fundamental cell processes. A range of eukaryotic systems exhibit liquid condensates. However, their f…
Power-Law Stretching of Associating Polymers in Steady-State Extensional Flow
Charley Schaefer, Tom C. B. McLeish
We present a tube model for the Brownian dynamics of associating polymers in extensional flow. In linear response, the model confirms the analytical predictions for the sticky diff…
Chain-Stretch Relaxation from Low Frequency Fourier Transform Rheology
Carl D. Reynolds, David M. Hoyle, Richard L. Thompson +1
Medium or large amplitude oscillatory shear (M/LAOS) is sensitive to polymer chain structure, yet poses unsolved challenges for 'a priori' structural characterisation. In this lett…
Morphology Formation in Binary Mixtures upon Gradual Destabilisation
Charley Schaefer, Stefan Paquay, Tom C. B. McLeish
Spontaneous liquid-liquid phase separation is commonly understood in terms of phenomenological mean-field theories. These theories correctly predict the structural features of the…
A Medieval Multiverse: Mathematical Modelling of the 13th Century Universe of Robert Grosseteste
Richard G. Bower, Tom C. B. McLeish F. R. S., Brian K. Tanner +4
In his treatise on light, written in about 1225, Robert Grosseteste describes a cosmological model in which the Universe is created in a big-bang like explosion and subsequent cond…