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Mean first passage times for bond formation for a Brownian particle in linear shear flow above a wall
C. Korn, U. S. Schwarz
Motivated by cell adhesion in hydrodynamic flow, here we study bond formation between a spherical Brownian particle in linear shear flow carrying receptors for ligands covering the…
Efficiency of initiating cell adhesion in hydrodynamic flow
C. Korn, U. S. Schwarz
We theoretically investigate the efficiency of initial binding between a receptor-coated sphere and a ligand-coated wall in linear shear flow. The mean first passage time for bindi…
Effect of Poisson ratio on cellular structure formation
Ilka B. Bischofs, Ulrich S. Schwarz
Mechanically active cells in soft media act as force dipoles. The resulting elastic interactions are long-ranged and favor the formation of strings. We show analytically that due t…
Adhesion clusters under shared linear loading: a stochastic analysis
T. Erdmann, U. S. Schwarz
We study the cooperative rupture of multiple adhesion bonds under shared linear loading. Simulations of the appropriate Master equation are compared with numerical integration of a…
Stability of adhesion clusters under constant force
T. Erdmann, U. S. Schwarz
We solve the stochastic equations for a cluster of parallel bonds with shared constant loading, rebinding and the completely dissociated state as an absorbing boundary. In the smal…
Elastic Interactions of Cells
U. S. Schwarz, S. A. Safran
Biological cells in soft materials can be modeled as anisotropic force contraction dipoles. The corresponding elastic interaction potentials are long-ranged ( with dist…
Stability of bicontinuous cubic phases in ternary amphiphilic systems with spontaneous curvature
U. S. Schwarz, G. Gompper
We study the phase behavior of ternary amphiphilic systems in the framework of a curvature model with non-vanishing spontaneous curvature. The amphiphilic monolayers can arrange in…