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26 papers
The Hidden Wheel-Within
Falko Ziebert, Igor M. Kulić
There is this old, eternal question: Why don't animals have wheels? In this perspective we show that they actually do. And they do so in a physically extraordinary way -- by combin…
Dynamics of Fiberboids
Antony Bazir, Arthur Baumann, Falko Ziebert +1
Fiberboids are active filaments trapped at the interface of two phases, able of harnessing energy (and matter) fluxes across the interface in order to produce a rolling-like self-p…
Counter-rotation of magnetic beads in spinning fields
Jean Farago, Thierry Charitat, Alexandre Bigot +2
A magnetized bead in a magnetic field seeks to minimize its magnetic free energy by aligning its magnetic moment with the field direction and by moving towards the maximum of the f…
The Helical Superstructure of Intermediate Filaments
Lila Bouzar, Martin Michael Müller, René Messina +4
Intermediate filaments are the least explored among the large cytoskeletal elements. We show here that they display conformational anomalies in narrow microfluidic channels. Their…
Magnetic Merry Go Round - Resonant Reshaping of Colloidal Clusters on a Current Carrying Wire
Lydiane Becu, Marc Basler, Miodrag L. Kulić +1
We describe a simple physical method for trapping and transforming magnetic colloid clusters on a current carrying wire. We use the wire's field as a mould to form colloidal rings…
Squeezed Helical Elastica
Lila Bouzar, Martin Michael Müller, Pierre Gosselin +2
We theoretically study the conformations of a helical semi-flexible filament confined to a flat surface. This squeezed helix exhibits a variety of unexpected shapes resembling circ…