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Understanding the molecular mechanisms driving the binding between bio-molecules is a crucial challenge in molecular biology. In this respect, characteristics like the preferentially hydrophobic composition of the binding interfaces, the…
Empirical potential structure refinement (EPSR) simulations are performed on total neutron scattering data from powder samples of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) and polychlorotrifluoroethylene (PCTFE), both at 300K. For PTFE a number of…
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Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) can undergo large reversible contractions along their nematic director upon heating or illumination. A spatially patterned director within a flat LCE sheet thus encodes a pattern of contraction on heating,…
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In recent years, thermophoresis has emerged as a promising tool for quantifying biomolecular interactions. The underlying physical effect is still not understood. To gain deeper insight, we investigate whether non-equilibrium coefficients…
The development of polymer blends has emerged as a strategic approach for designing multifunctional materials with enhanced tailored characteristics. Current work investigates and reports for the first time, the structure-property…
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The conformational behavior of a coarse-grained finite polymer chain near an attractive spherical surface was investigated by means of multicanonical Monte Carlo computer simulations. In a detailed analysis of canonical equilibrium data…
In this work we analyze the power scaling potential of amplifying multicore fibers (MCFs) used in coherently-combined systems. In particular, in this study we exemplarily consider rod-type MCFs with 2x2 up to 10x10 Ytterbium doped cores…
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Low-energy heavy-ion induced reactions often involve incomplete fusion, but the dependence of ICF on various entrance-channel parameters remains unclear. In this work, we measure channel-by-channel production cross-sections of different…
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) and multidomain proteins with flexible linkers show a high level of structural heterogeneity and are best described by ensembles consisting of multiple conformations with associated thermodynamic…
We combine theory and experiments to explore the kinematics and actuation of intrinsically curved folds (ICFs) in otherwise developable shells. Unlike origami folds, ICFs are not bending isometries of flat sheets, but arise via…