4 papers
Coarsening of biomimetic condensates in a self-stirring active fluid
Jeremy Laprade, Layne Frechette, Christopher Amey +4
Coarsening, the process where larger structures grow at the expense of smaller ones, is a fundamental aspect of multiphase systems. The cell cytoplasm exemplifies an out-of-equilib…
Liquid-liquid phase separation enables highly selective viral genome packaging
Layne B. Frechette, Michael F. Hagan
In many viruses, hundreds of proteins assemble an outer shell (capsid) around the viral nucleic acid to form an infectious virion. How the assembly process selects the viral genome…
Computer simulations show that liquid-liquid phase separation enhances self-assembly
Layne B. Frechette, Naren Sundararajan, Fernando Caballero +2
Biomolecular condensates are liquid- or gel-like droplets of proteins and nucleic acids formed at least in part through liquid-liquid phase separation. Condensates enable diverse f…
Active noise-induced dynamic clustering of passive colloids
Layne B. Frechette, Aparna Baskaran, Michael F. Hagan
Active fluids generate spontaneous, often chaotic mesoscale flows. Harnessing these flows to drive embedded soft materials into structures with controlled length scales and lifetim…