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cond-mat.soft2020
Disordered biopolymer filament bundles: Topological defects and kinks
Valentin M. Slepukhin, Maximilian J. Grill, Qingda Hu +3
Bundles of stiff filaments are ubiquitous in the living world, found both in the cytoskeleton and in the extracellular medium. These bundles are typically held together by smaller…
cond-mat.soft2018
Compact interaction potential for van der Waals nanorods
Jack A. Logan, Alexei V. Tkachenko
We studied the van der Waals interactions of two finite, solid, cylindrical rods at arbitrary angle and position with respect to each other. An analytic interpolative formula for t…