Surface Deformation of Biocompatible Materials: Recent Advances in Biological Applications

S Yoon, A Fuwad, S Jeong, H Cho, TJ Jeon, SM Kim - Biomimetics, 2024 - mdpi.com
The surface topography of substrates is a crucial factor that determines the interaction with
biological materials in bioengineering research. Therefore, it is important to appropriately …

Modeling the Temperature-Dependent Size Change of Polydisperse Nano-objects using a Deep Generative Model

R Azad, P Lenßen, Y Jia, M Strauch, BA Bener… - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Modern microscopy techniques can be used to investigate soft nano-objects at the
nanometer scale. However, time-consuming microscopy measurements combined with low …

Mechanical memories in solids, from disorder to design

JD Paulsen, NC Keim - arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.08158, 2024 - arxiv.org
Solids are rigid, which means that when left undisturbed, their structures are nearly static. It
follows that these structures depend on history--but it is surprising that they hold readable …

Thermoresponsive oil-continuous gels based on double-interpenetrating colloidal-particle networks

BA Macias-Rodriguez, R Gouzy, C Coulais, KP Velikov - Soft Matter, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Gels composed of multicomponent building blocks offer promising opportunities for the
development of novel soft materials with unique and useful structures. While interpenetrating …

Space-resolved dynamic light scattering within a millimeter-sized drop: From Brownian diffusion to the swelling of hydrogel beads

M Milani, T Phou, G Prevot, L Ramos, L Cipelletti - Physical Review E, 2024 - APS
We present a dynamic light scattering setup to probe, with time and space resolution, the
microscopic dynamics of soft matter systems confined within millimeter-sized spherical …

[HTML][HTML] Observation of liquid glass in molecular dynamics simulations

M Alhissi, A Zumbusch, M Fuchs - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Molecular anisotropy plays an important role in the glass transition of a liquid. Recently, a
novel bulk glass state has been discovered by optical microscopy experiments on …

Learning dynamical models from stochastic trajectories

P Ronceray - arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.02363, 2024 - arxiv.org
The dynamics of biological systems, from proteins to cells to organisms, is complex and
stochastic. To decipher their physical laws, we need to bridge between experimental …

Boundary geometry controls topological defect transitions that determine lumen nucleation in embryonic development

PC Guruciaga, T Ichikawa, T Hiiragi… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Topological defects determine the collective properties of anisotropic materials. How their
configurations are controlled is not well understood however, especially in 3D, where bulk …