Heterogeneous fluid-like movements of chromatin and their implications to transcription

SS Ashwin, K Maeshima, M Sasai - Biophysical Reviews, 2020 - Springer
Eukaryotic chromatin is a complex of genome DNA and associated proteins, and its structure
and dynamics play a crucial role in regulating DNA functions. Chromatin takes rather …

Organization of fast and slow chromatin revealed by single-nucleosome dynamics

SS Ashwin, T Nozaki, K Maeshima… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Understanding chromatin organization and dynamics is important, since they crucially affect
DNA functions. In this study, we investigate chromatin dynamics by statistically analyzing …

Noncanonical Relationship between Heterogeneity and the Stokes–Einstein Breakdown in Deep Eutectic Solvents

H Srinivasan, VK Sharma, VG Sakai… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The relationship between Stokes–Einstein breakdown (SEB) and dynamical heterogeneity
(DH) is of paramount importance in the physical chemistry of complex fluids. In this work, we …

Length-scale dependence of the stokes-einstein and adam-gibbs relations in model glass formers

ADS Parmar, S Sengupta, S Sastry - Physical review letters, 2017 - APS
The Adam-Gibbs (AG) relation connects the dynamics of a glass-forming liquid to its
thermodynamics via the configurational entropy and is of fundamental importance in …

Non-Gaussianity of the van Hove function and dynamic-heterogeneity length scale

BP Bhowmik, I Tah, S Karmakar - Physical Review E, 2018 - APS
Non-Gaussian nature of the probability distribution of particles' displacements in the
supercooled temperature regime in glass-forming liquids are believed to be one of the major …

Time scales of Fickian diffusion and the lifetime of dynamic heterogeneity

R Das, C Dasgupta, S Karmakar - Frontiers in Physics, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Dynamic heterogeneity, believed to be one of the hallmarks of the dynamics of supercooled
liquids, is expected to affect the diffusion of the particles comprising the liquid. We have …

Quantification of spatio-temporal scales of dynamical heterogeneity of water near lipid membranes above supercooling

A Srivastava, S Karmakar, A Debnath - Soft Matter, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
A hydrated 1, 2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphorylcholine (DMPC) lipid membrane is
investigated using an all atom molecular dynamics simulation at 308 K to determine the …

Effect of water nanoconfinement on the dynamic properties of paramagnetic colloidal complexes

L Bergamasco, M Morciano, M Fasano - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The anomalous behavior of confined water at the nanoscale has remarkable implications in
a number of nanotechnological applications. In this work, we analyze the effect of water self …

Violation of Stokes–Einstein and Stokes–Einstein–Debye relations in polymers at the gas-supercooled liquid coexistence

J Singh, PP Jose - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Molecular dynamics simulations are performed on a system of model linear polymers to look
at the violations of Stokes–Einstein (SE) and Stokes–Einstein–Debye (SED) relations near …

The Dynamics of Liquids and Glasses Using Nuclear Resonance Time Domain Interferometry

M Pavlik - 2023 - search.proquest.com
Nuclear resonance time domain interferometry (NR-TDI) is used to study the slow dynamics
of liquids (that do not require Mössbauer isotopes) at atomic and molecular length scales …