2 papers
cond-mat.soft2008
Botanical Ratchets
I. M. Kulić, M. Mani, H. Mohrbach +2
Ratcheting surfaces are a common motif in nature and appear in plant awns and grasses. They are known to profer selective advantages for seed dispersion and burial. In two simple m…
q-bio.BM2005
Equation of state of looped DNA
I. M. Kulic, H. Mohrbach, R. Thaokar +1
We calculate the equation of state of DNA under tension for the case that the DNA features loops. Such loops occur transiently during DNA condensation in the presence of multivalen…