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Entropy of water and the temperature-induced stiffening of amyloid networks
Slav A. Semerdzhiev, Saskia Lindhoud, Anja Stefanovic +3
In water, networks of semi-flexible fibrils of the protein -synuclein stiffen significantly with increasing temperature. We make plausible that this reversible stiffening is a r…
Connectedness percolation of hard deformed rods
Tara Drwenski, Simone Dussi, Marjolein Dijkstra +2
Nanofiller particles, such as carbon nanotubes or metal wires, are used in functional polymer composites to make them conduct electricity. They are often not perfectly straight cyl…
On the Kinetics of Body versus End Evaporation and Addition of Supramolecular Polymers
Nitin S. Tiwari, Paul van der Schoot
Although pathway-specific kinetic theories are fundamentally important to describe and understand reversible polymerisation kinetics, they come in principle at a cost of having a l…
Impact of a non-uniform charge distribution on virus assembly
Siyu Li, Gonca Erdemci-Tandogan, Jef Wagner +2
Many spherical viruses encapsulate their genome in protein shells with icosahedral symmetry. This process is spontaneous and driven by electrostatic interactions between positive d…
Impact of Interaction Range and Curvature on Crystal Growth of Particles Confined to Spherical Surfaces
Stefan Paquay, Gert-Jan Both, Paul van der Schoot
When colloidal particles form a crystal phase on a spherical template, their packing is governed by the effective interaction between them and the elastic strain of bending the gro…
Contact Mechanics of a Small Icosahedral Virus
Cheng Zeng, Mercedes Hernando-Pérez, Xiang Ma +3
Virus binding to a surface results at least locally, at the contact area, in stress and potential structural perturbation of the virus cage. Here we address the question of the rol…