5 papers
Anomalous proteinaceous shells with octagonal local order
Sergei B. Rochal, Aleksey S. Roshal, Olga V. Konevtsova +1
Proteinaceous shells useful for various biomedical applications exhibit a wide range of anomalous structures that are fundamentally different from icosahedral viral capsids describ…
Correlation decoupling of Casimir interaction in an electrolyte driven by external electric fields
Guangle Du, David S. Dean, Bing Miao +1
It has been established for a long time that the long range van der Waals or thermal Casimir interaction between two semi-infinite dielectrics separated by a distance is screen…
Repulsive thermal van der Waals interaction in multi-species asymmetric electrolytes driven by external electric fields
Guangle Du, David S. Dean, Bing Miao +1
It is well established that the long-range component of the thermal van der Waals interaction between two semi-infinite dielectrics becomes short-range when an electrolyte is prese…
Sequence disorder-induced first order phase transition in confined polyelectrolytes
V. Stepanyan, A. Badasyan, V. Morozov +2
We consider a statistical mechanical model of a generic flexible polyelectrolyte, comprised of identically charged monomers with long range electrostatic interactions, and short-ra…
Spool-nematic ordering of dsDNA and dsRNA under confinement
James Farrell, Jure Dobnikar, Rudolf Podgornik +1
The ability of double-stranded DNA or RNA to locally melt and form kinks leads to strong non-linear elasticity effects that qualitatively affect their packing in confined spaces. U…