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Thermodynamic equilibrium of binary mixtures on curved surfaces
Piermarco Fonda, Melissa Rinaldin, Daniela J. Kraft +1
We study the global influence of curvature on the free energy landscape of two-dimensional binary mixtures confined on closed surfaces. Starting from a generic effective free energ…
Mono-to-multilayer transition in growing bacterial colonies
Zhihong You, Daniel J. G. Pearce, Anupam Sengupta +1
The transition from monolayers to multilayered structures in bacterial colonies is a fundamental step in biofilm development. Observed across different morphotypes and species, thi…
Statistical Properties of Autonomous Flows in 2D Active Nematics
Linnea M Lemma, Stephen J Decamp, Zhihong You +2
We study the dynamics of a tunable 2D active nematic liquid crystal composed of microtubules and kinesin motors confined to an oil-water interface. Kinesin motors continuously inje…
Interface geometry of binary mixtures on curved substrates
Piermarco Fonda, Melissa Rinaldin, Daniela J. Kraft +1
Motivated by recent experimental work on multicomponent lipid membranes supported by colloidal scaffolds, we report an exhaustive theoretical investigation of the equilibrium confi…
Geometric pinning and antimixing in scaffolded lipid vesicles
Melissa Rinaldin, Piermarco Fonda, Luca Giomi +1
Unravelling the physical mechanisms behind the organisation of lipid domains is a central goal in cell biology and membrane biophysics. Previous studies on cells and model lipid bi…