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Antibubbles, which consist of a shell of a low-density fluid inside a high-density fluid, have several promising applications. We show, via extensive direct numerical simulations (DNSs), in both two and three dimensions (2D and 3D), that…
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According to the experimental evidence damage induced by densely ionizing radiation in mammalian cells is distributed along the DNA molecule in the form of clusters. The most critical constituent of DNA damage are double-strand breaks…
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We study numerically the mechanical stability and elasticity properties of duplex DNA molecules within the frame of a network model incorporating microscopic degrees of freedom related with the arrangement of the base pairs. We pay special…
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