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Oscillations in molecular motor assemblies
Andrej Vilfan, Erwin Frey
Autonomous oscillations in biological systems may have a biochemical origin or result from an interplay between force-generating and visco-elastic elements. In molecular motor asse…
Renewal processes and fluctuation analysis of molecular motor stepping
Jaime E. Santos, Thomas Franosch, Andrea Parmeggiani +1
We model the dynamics of a processive or rotary molecular motor using a renewal processes, in line with the work initiated by Svoboda, Mitra and Block. We apply a functional techni…
Elastic properties of grafted microtubules
Francesco Pampaloni, Gianluca Lattanzi, Alexandr Jonáš +3
We use single-particle tracking to study the elastic properties of single microtubules grafted to a substrate. Thermal fluctuations of the free microtubule's end are recorded, in o…
Stiff Polymers, Foams and Fiber Networks
Claus Heussinger, Erwin Frey
We study the elasticity of fibrous materials composed of generalized stiff polymers. It is shown that in contrast to cellular foam-like structures affine strain fields are generica…
Dynamic correlation functions and Boltzmann Langevin approach for driven one dimensional lattice gas
P. Pierobon, A. Parmeggiani, F. von Oppen +1
We study the dynamics of the totally asymmetric exclusion process with open boundaries by phenomenological theories complemented by extensive Monte-Carlo simulations. Upon combinin…
Melting of Colloidal Molecular Crystals on Triangular Lattices
A. Sarlah, T. Franosch, E. Frey
The phase behavior of a two-dimensional colloidal system subject to a commensurate triangular potential is investigated. We consider the integer number of colloids in each potentia…