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Defect Spirograph: Dynamical Behavior of Defects in Spatially Patterned Active Nematics
Ali Mozaffari, Rui Zhang, Noe Atzin +1
Topological defects in active liquid crystals can be confined by introducing gradients of activity. Here, we examine the dynamical behavior of two defects confined by a sharp gradi…
Controlling placement of nonspherical (boomerang) colloids in nematic cells with photopatterned director
Chenhui Peng, Taras Turiv, Rui Zhang +5
Placing colloidal particles in predesigned sites represents a major challenge of the current state-of-the-art colloidal science. Nematic liquid crystals with spatially varying dire…
A model of HIV budding and self-assembly, role of cell membrane
Rui Zhang, Toan T. Nguyen
Budding from the plasma membrane of the host cell is an indispensable step in the life cycle of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), which belongs to a large family of enveloped…
Electrostatic theory of viral self-assembly: a toy model
Tao Hu, Rui Zhang, B. I. Shklovskii
Viruses self-assemble from identical capsid proteins and their genome consisting, for example, of a long single stranded (ss) RNA. For a big class of T = 3 viruses capsid proteins…
Long range polarization attraction between two different likely charged macroions
Rui Zhang, B. I. Shklovskii
It is known that in a water solution with multivalent counterions (Z-ions), two likely charged macroions can attract each other due to correlations of Z-ions adsorbed on their surf…
Phase diagram of solution of oppositely charged polyelectrolytes
Rui Zhang, B. I. Shklovskii
We study a solution of long polyanions (PA) with shorter polycations (PC) and focus on the role of Coulomb interaction. A good example is solutions of DNA and PC which are widely s…