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Experiments with polymer latex solutions show the coexistence of order-disorder structures of macroions. Because of the large macroions' sizes, this order-disorder phase coexistence imply the existence of very long-range attractive and…

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In this study, we investigate the behaviour of sedimenting solid particles and the influence of microscopic particle dynamics on the collective motion of a sedimenting cloud. Departing from conventional direct numerical simulations (DNS),…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-28 Nejc Vovk , Jana Wedel , Paul Steinmann , Jure Ravnik

Recently single molecule experiments have shown the importance of internal friction in biopolymer dynamics. Such studies also suggested that the internal friction although independent of solvent viscosity has strong dependence on denaturant…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-02 Nairhita Samanta , Rajarshi Chakrabarti

Some dimeric proteins first fold and then dimerize (three--state dimers) while others first dimerize and then fold (two--state dimers). Within the framework of a minimal lattice model, we can distinguish between sequences obeying to one or…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Tiana , D. Provasi , R. A. Broglia

The paper analyzes theoretically the influence of fullerenes on the characteristics of $\mathrm{Al/C}_{60}$ composites. The molecular dynamics method is used to study the dependences of density and stiffness constants on the concentration…

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Recent studies of active colloidal matter have revealed that a global polar order can arise from chemorepulsive interactions among particles without any explicit alignment interaction between them. In this work, we investigate such…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-05 Sagarika Adhikary , Rajesh Singh

We study the influence of intrinsic noise on the structure and dynamics of responsive colloids (RCs) which actively change their size and mutual interactions. The colloidal size is explicitly resolved in our RC model as an internal degree…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-22 Nils Göth , Upayan Baul , Joachim Dzubiella

The flocking of self-propelled particles in heterogeneous environments is relevant to both natural and artificial systems. The Vicsek model is a canonical choice to investigate such systems due to the minimal number of parameters required…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-12-11 Eighdi Aung , Nicole Abaid , James E. McClure

Structured environment controls dynamics of light-matter interaction processes via modified local density of electromagnetic states. In typical scenarios, where nanosecond-scale fluorescent processes are involved, mechanical conformational…

We study the asymptotic decay of the Friedel density oscillations induced by an open boundary in a one-dimensional chain of lattice fermions with a short-range two-particle interaction. From Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid theory it is known that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-24 Jovan Odavić , Nicole Helbig , Volker Meden

The interplay of membrane proteins is vital for many biological processes, such as cellular transport, cell division, and signal transduction between nerve cells. Theoretical considerations have led to the idea that the membrane itself…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-11-28 Casper van der Wel , Afshin Vahid , Anđela Šarić , Timon Idema , Doris Heinrich , Daniela J. Kraft

Complex biological and physical transport processes are often described through systems of interacting particles. Excluded-volume effects on these transport processes are well studied, however the interplay between volume exclusion and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-06-27 Daniel Wilson , Helen Byrne , Maria Bruna

Quartz nanopipettes are an important emerging class of electric single-molecule sensors for DNA, proteins, their complexes as well as other biomolecular targets. However, in comparison to other resistive pulse sensors, nanopipettes…

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The self-assembly of copolymeric vesicles and micelles in micromixers is studied by External Potential Dynamics (EPD) simulations -- a dynamic density functional approach that explicitly accounts for the polymer architecture both at the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-04-10 Simon Kessler , Klaus Drese , Friederike Schmid

Molecular dynamics simulations of interacting soft disks confined in a heterogeneous quenched matrix of soft obstacles show dynamics which is fundamentally different from that of hard disks. The interactions between the disks can enhance…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-02-21 Simon Kaspar Schnyder , Jürgen Horbach

We study the dynamics of a suspension of magnetic nanoparticles. Their relaxation times are strongly size-dependent. The dominant mode of relaxation is also governed by the size of the particles. As a result the dynamics is greatly altered…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-08-21 Vanchna Singh , Varsha Banerjee , Manish Sharma

We study the effect of the Coulomb interaction on the local density of states (LDOS) and its Fourier component in disordered cuprates. It is shown that the Coulomb interaction suppresses strongly the maximum value of the LDOS induced by the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Degang Zhang

Fundamental understanding of macroscopic properties of polymer nanocomposites (PNCs) remains difficult due to the complex interplay of microscopic dynamics and structure, namely interfacial layer relaxations and three-dimensional…

Controlling the size distribution in the nucleation of copper particles is crucial for achieving nanocrystals with desired physical and chemical properties. However, their synthesis involves a complex system of solvents, ligands, and copper…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-02-06 Oren Elishav , Ofir Blumer , T. Kyle Vanderlick , Barak Hirshberg

Polymer architecture plays critical roles in both bulk rheological properties and microscale macromolecular dynamics in entangled polymer solutions and composites. Ring polymers, in particular, have been the topic of much debate due to the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-02-07 Pawan Khanal , Karthik R Peddireddy , Juexin Marfai , Ryan McGorty , Rae M Robertson-Anderson