Derivation and simulation of a two-phase fluid deformable surface model

E Bachini, V Krause, I Nitschke, A Voigt - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - cambridge.org
To explore the impact of surface viscosity on coexisting fluid domains in biomembranes we
consider two-phase fluid deformable surfaces as model systems for biomembranes. Such …

Forced and spontaneous symmetry breaking in cell polarization

PW Miller, D Fortunato, C Muratov… - Nature computational …, 2022 - nature.com
How does breaking the symmetry of an equation alter the symmetry of its solutions? Here,
we systematically examine how reducing underlying symmetries from spherical to …

The interplay of geometry and coarsening in multicomponent lipid vesicles under the influence of hydrodynamics

E Bachini, V Krause, A Voigt - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
We consider the impact of surface hydrodynamics on the interplay between membrane
curvature and lipid composition in coarsening processes on model systems for …

Colloid supported lipid bilayers for self-assembly

M Rinaldin, RW Verweij, I Chakraborty, DJ Kraft - Soft Matter, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The use of colloid supported lipid bilayers (CSLBs) has recently been extended to create
colloidal joints, that enable the assembly of structures with internal degrees of flexibility, and …

Geometric pinning and antimixing in scaffolded lipid vesicles

M Rinaldin, P Fonda, L Giomi, DJ Kraft - Nature Communications, 2020 - nature.com
Previous studies on the phase behaviour of multicomponent lipid bilayers found an intricate
interplay between membrane geometry and its composition, but a fundamental …

Binary mixtures of active and passive particles on a sphere

B Ai, B Zhou, X Zhang - Soft Matter, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
We study the cooperation and segregation dynamics of binary mixtures of active and
passive particles on a sphere. According to the competition between rotational diffusion and …

Collective transport of polar active particles on the surface of a corrugated tube

BQ Ai, WJ Zhu, JJ Liao - New Journal of Physics, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We study collective transport of polar active particles on the surface of a corrugated tube.
Particles can be rectified on the surface of the asymmetric tube. The system shows different …

Thermodynamic equilibrium of binary mixtures on curved surfaces

P Fonda, M Rinaldin, DJ Kraft, L Giomi - Physical Review E, 2019 - APS
We study the global influence of curvature on the free energy landscape of two-dimensional
binary mixtures confined on closed surfaces. Starting from a generic effective free energy …

Multicomponent flow on curved surfaces: A vielbein lattice Boltzmann approach

VE Ambruş, S Busuioc, AJ Wagner, F Paillusson… - Physical Review E, 2019 - APS
We develop and implement a finite difference lattice Boltzmann scheme to study
multicomponent flows on curved surfaces, coupling the continuity and Navier-Stokes …

Collective motion of polar active particles on a sphere

Y Chen, J Huang, FH Meng, TC Li, BQ Ai - Chinese Physics B, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Collective motion of active particles with polar alignment is investigated on a sphere. We
discussed the factors that affect particle swarm motion and define an order parameter that …