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physics.bio-ph2018★ 19 cited
Confinement and crowding control the morphology and dynamics of a model bacterial chromosome
Pinaki Swain, Bela M. Mulder, Debasish Chaudhuri
Motivated by recent experiments probing shape, size and dynamics of bacterial chromosomes in growing cells, we consider a polymer model consisting of a circular backbone to which s…
cond-mat.stat-mech2018
Bifurcation Analysis of Liquid Crystal Phase Transitions
Bela M. Mulder
These lectures focus on bifurcation analysis as a tool for studying phase transitions that occur in models of liquid-crystalline systems. We show how this approach bridges the gap…
cond-mat.soft2018★ 1 cited
Scratching a 50-year itch with elongated rods
Ramon Creyghton, Bela Mulder
The classical Oseen-Frank theory of liquid crystal elasticity is based on the experimentally verified fact that there are three independent modes of distortion, each with its assoc…