Stress granules plug and stabilize damaged endolysosomal membranes

C Bussi, A Mangiarotti, C Vanhille-Campos, B Aylan… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Endomembrane damage represents a form of stress that is detrimental for eukaryotic cells,.
To cope with this threat, cells possess mechanisms that repair the damage and restore …

Recent advances in describing and driving crystal nucleation using machine learning and artificial intelligence

ER Beyerle, Z Zou, P Tiwary - Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
With the advent of faster computer processors and especially graphics processing units
(GPUs) over the last few decades, the use of data-intensive machine learning (ML) and …

Homogeneous ice nucleation in an ab initio machine-learning model of water

PM Piaggi, J Weis, AZ Panagiotopoulos… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - pnas.org
Molecular simulations have provided valuable insight into the microscopic mechanisms
underlying homogeneous ice nucleation. While empirical models have been used …

Asymmetric oligomerization state and sequence patterning can tune multiphase condensate miscibility

U Rana, K Xu, A Narayanan, MT Walls… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Endogenous biomolecular condensates, composed of a multitude of proteins and RNAs,
can organize into multiphasic structures with compositionally distinct phases. This …

The emergence of valency in colloidal crystals through electron equivalents

S Wang, S Lee, JS Du, BE Partridge, HF Cheng… - Nature materials, 2022 - nature.com
Colloidal crystal engineering of complex, low-symmetry architectures is challenging when
isotropic building blocks are assembled. Here we describe an approach to generating such …

De novo design of modular protein hydrogels with programmable intra-and extracellular viscoelasticity

R Mout, RC Bretherton, J Decarreau, S Lee… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Relating the macroscopic properties of protein-based materials to their underlying
component microstructure is an outstanding challenge. Here, we exploit computational …

Structure of polymer-grafted nanoparticle melts

J Midya, M Rubinstein, SK Kumar, A Nikoubashman - ACS nano, 2020 - ACS Publications
The structure of neat melts of polymer-grafted nanoparticles (GNPs) is studied via coarse-
grained molecular dynamics simulations. We systematically vary the degree of …

Space-tiled colloidal crystals from DNA-forced shape-complementary polyhedra pairing

W Zhou, Y Li, K Je, T Vo, H Lin, BE Partridge, Z Huang… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Generating space-filling arrangements of most discrete polyhedra nanostructures of the
same shape is not possible. However, if the appropriate individual building blocks are …

Ordering of room-temperature magnetic skyrmions in a polar van der Waals magnet

P Meisenheimer, H Zhang, D Raftrey, X Chen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Control and understanding of ensembles of skyrmions is important for realization of future
technologies. In particular, the order-disorder transition associated with the 2D lattice of …

Irreversible Monte Carlo algorithms for hard disk glasses: From event-chain to collective swaps

F Ghimenti, L Berthier, F van Wijland - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Equilibrium sampling of the configuration space in disordered systems requires algorithms
that bypass the glassy slowing down of the physical dynamics. Irreversible Monte Carlo …