3 papers
cond-mat.soft2018
Pollen Patterns Form from Modulated Phases
Asja Radja, Eric M. Horsley, Maxim O. Lavrentovich +1
Pollen grains are known for their impressive variety of species-specific, microscale surface patterning. Despite having similar biological developmental steps, pollen grain surface…
cond-mat.stat-mech2018
Aspects of nucleation on curved and flat surfaces
Eric M. Horsley, Maxim O. Lavrentovich, Randall D. Kamien
We investigate the energetics of droplets sourced by the thermal fluctuations in a system undergoing a first-order transition. In particular, we confine our studies to two dimensio…
cond-mat.soft2016
First-order patterning transitions on a sphere as a route to cell morphology
Maxim O. Lavrentovich, Eric M. Horsley, Asja Radja +2
We propose a general theory for surface patterning in many different biological systems, including mite and insect cuticles, pollen grains, fungal spores, and insect eggs. The patt…