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Physical Mechanism of Vacuole Formation in Liquid Droplets
Pranay Jaiswal, Ivar S. Haugerud, William Verstraeten +3
The paper explains how empty cavities (vacuoles) can appear inside liquid droplets through a local spinodal instability, and provides a non‑equilibrium thermodynamic framework to p…
Roadmap for Condensates in Cell Biology
Dilimulati Aierken, Sebastian Aland, Stefano Bo +38
Biomolecular condensates govern essential cellular processes yet elude description by traditional equilibrium models. This roadmap, distilled from structured discussions at a works…
Harvesting chemical power from cyclic environments
Pranay Jaiswal, Ivar S. Haugerud, Hidde D. Vuijk +1
Life relies on a sophisticated metabolic molecular machinery that turns over high-energy molecules to evolve complex macromolecules and assemblies. At the molecular origin of life,…
Excitability and oscillations of active droplets
Ivar S. Haugerud, Hidde D. Vuijk, Job Boekhoven +1
In living cells, cycles of formation and dissolution of liquid droplets can mediate biological functions such as DNA repair. However, the minimal physicochemical prerequisite for s…