Dendritic spines are micron-sized protrusions that harbor the majority of excitatory synapses in the central nervous system. The head of the spine is connected to the dendritic shaft by a …
Diffusion of particles in curved surfaces is inherently complex compared with diffusion in a flat membrane, owing to the nonplanarity of the surface. The consequence of such …
Cells are neither flat nor smooth, which has serious implications for prevailing plasma membrane models and cellular processes like cell signalling, adhesion and molecular …
Using the classical density functional theory of freezing and Monte Carlo computer simulations, we explore the liquid-crystalline phase behavior of hard rectangles on flat and …
Dynamics simulations of constrained particles can greatly aid in understanding the temporal and spatial evolution of biological processes such as lateral transport along membranes and …
R Kusters, C Storm - Europhysics Letters, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Even a small number of actively driven particles can set large numbers of passive particles into motion. We study collective behavior in densely packed particle systems, that contain a …
CE Sitta, F Smallenburg, R Wittkowski, H Löwen - Struktur und Dynamik weicher … - d-nb.info
Using the classical density functional theory of freezing and Monte Carlo computer simulations, we explore the liquid-crystalline phase behavior of hard rectangles on flat and …
In this project we have studied the effect of curvature on the directionality of diffusion. For this, we measure the diffusion of spherical Lennard-Jones particles in the circumferential …