Evolution of a polydisperse ensemble of spherical particles in a metastable medium with allowance for heat and mass exchange with the environment

DV Alexandrov, AA Ivanov, IG Nizovtseva, S Lippmann… - Crystals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Motivated by a wide range of applications in various fields of physics and materials science,
we consider a generalized approach to the evolution of a polydisperse ensemble of …

The isothermal and nonisothermal crystallization kinetics and morphology of solvent-precipitated nylon 66

CH Tseng, PS Tsai - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Solvent-precipitated nylon 66 (SP PA66) is a key material used to fabricate microfiltration
membranes. The crystallization kinetics and behavior of SP PA66 were investigated through …

Electromagnetic field modulates aggregation propensity of amyloid peptides

N Todorova, A Bentvelzen, I Yarovsky - The Journal of Chemical …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Nonthermal effects of the electromagnetic (EM) field in the radio and microwave frequency
ranges on basic biological matter are difficult to detect and thus remain poorly understood. In …

Thermodynamic Insights into Symmetry Breaking: Exploring Energy Dissipation across Diverse Scales

A Arango-Restrepo, JM Rubi - Entropy, 2024 - mdpi.com
Symmetry breaking is a phenomenon that is observed in various contexts, from the early
universe to complex organisms, and it is considered a key puzzle in understanding the …

Chiral symmetry breaking induced by energy dissipation

A Arango-Restrepo, O Arteaga, D Barragán… - Physical Chemistry …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking is observed in a wide variety of systems on very
different scales, from the subatomic to the cosmological. Despite its generality and …

Thermokinetic approach of single particles and clusters involving anomalous diffusion under viscoelastic response

I Santamaría-Holek, JM Rubi… - The Journal of Physical …, 2007 - ACS Publications
We present a thermokinetic description of anomalous diffusion of single particles and
clusters in a viscoelastic medium in terms of a non-Markovian diffusion equation involving …

Controlling protein crystal growth rate by means of temperature

I Santamaría-Holek, A Gadomski… - Journal of Physics …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
We have proposed a model to analyze the growth kinetics of lysozyme crystals/aggregates
under non-isothermal conditions. The model was formulated through an analysis of the …

Engineering problems in protein crystallization

A Navarro, HS Wu, SS Wang - Separation and purification technology, 2009 - Elsevier
The separation and the purification of proteins has been an important field for research.
Indeed, the separation of one protein from all others, in the biological environment, is …

Protein motors induced enhanced diffusion in intracellular transport

I Santamaría-Holek, MH Vainstein, JM Rubí… - Physica A: Statistical …, 2009 - Elsevier
Diffusion of transported particles in the intracellular medium is described by means of a
generalized diffusion equation containing forces due to the cytoskeleton network and to the …

On morphological selection rule of noisy character applied to model (dis) orderly protein formations

J Siódmiak, I Santamaría-Holek… - The Journal of chemical …, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
We propose that the main mechanism controlling the selection rule of model (dis) orderly
protein formations, such as non-Kossel crystal growth and aggregation of lysozyme from …