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The competition between surface adsorption and folding of fibril-forming polypeptides
Ran Ni, J. Mieke Kleijn, Sanne Abeln +2
Self-assembly of polypeptides into fibrillar structures can be initiated by planar surfaces that interact favorably with certain residues. Using a coarse grained model, we systemat…
Tunable long range forces mediated by self-propelled colloidal hard spheres
Ran Ni, Martien A. Cohen Stuart, Peter G. Bolhuis
Using Brownian dynamics simulations, we systematically study the effective interaction between two parallel hard walls in a 2D suspension of self-propelled (active) colloidal hard…
Crystallizing hard-sphere glasses by doping with active particles
Ran Ni, Martien A. Cohen Stuart, Marjolein Dijkstra +1
Crystallization and vitrification are two different routes to form a solid. Normally these two processes suppress each other, with the glass transition preventing crystallization a…
Interplay between folding and assembly of fibril-forming polypeptides
Ran Ni, Sanne Abeln, Marieke Schor +2
Polypeptides can self-assemble into hierarchically organized fibrils consisting of a stack of individually folded polypeptides driven together by hydrophobic interaction. Using a c…
Pushing the glass transition towards random close packing using self-propelled hard spheres
Ran Ni, Martien A. Cohen Stuart, Marjolein Dijkstra
Although the concept of random close packing with an almost universal packing fraction of ~ 0.64 for hard spheres was introduced more than half a century ago, there are still ongoi…
Self-consistent field predictions for quenched spherical biocompatible triblock copolymer micelles
Jérôme G. J. L. Lebouille, Remco Tuinier, Leo F. W. Vleugels +2
We have used the Scheutjens-Fleer self-consistent field (SF-SCF) method to predict the self-assembly of triblock copolymers with a solvophilic middle block and sufficiently long so…