Phase transitions of associative biomacromolecules

RV Pappu, SR Cohen, F Dar, M Farag, M Kar - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Multivalent proteins and nucleic acids, collectively referred to as multivalent associative
biomacromolecules, provide the driving forces for the formation and compositional …

From colloidal particles to photonic crystals: advances in self-assembly and their emerging applications

Z Cai, Z Li, S Ravaine, M He, Y Song, Y Yin… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Over the last three decades, photonic crystals (PhCs) have attracted intense interests thanks
to their broad potential applications in optics and photonics. Generally, these structures can …

Competing protein-RNA interaction networks control multiphase intracellular organization

DW Sanders, N Kedersha, DSW Lee, AR Strom… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) mediates formation of membraneless condensates
such as those associated with RNA processing, but the rules that dictate their assembly …

Perspective: Advances, challenges, and insight for predictive coarse-grained models

WG Noid - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2023 - ACS Publications
By averaging over atomic details, coarse-grained (CG) models provide profound
computational and conceptual advantages for studying soft materials. In particular, bottom …

From predictive modelling to machine learning and reverse engineering of colloidal self-assembly

M Dijkstra, E Luijten - Nature materials, 2021 - nature.com
An overwhelming diversity of colloidal building blocks with distinct sizes, materials and
tunable interaction potentials are now available for colloidal self-assembly. The application …

Intrinsically disordered linkers determine the interplay between phase separation and gelation in multivalent proteins

TS Harmon, AS Holehouse, MK Rosen, RV Pappu - elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
Phase transitions of linear multivalent proteins control the reversible formation of many
intracellular membraneless bodies. Specific non-covalent crosslinks involving …

Colloidal matter: Packing, geometry, and entropy

VN Manoharan - Science, 2015 - science.org
BACKGROUND Colloids consist of solid or liquid particles, each about a few hundred
nanometers in size, dispersed in a fluid and kept suspended by thermal fluctuations …

Liquid network connectivity regulates the stability and composition of biomolecular condensates with many components

JR Espinosa, JA Joseph… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
One of the key mechanisms used by cells to control the spatiotemporal organization of their
many components is the formation and dissolution of biomolecular condensates through …

The role of local structure in dynamical arrest

CP Royall, SR Williams - Physics Reports, 2015 - Elsevier
Amorphous solids, or glasses, are distinguished from crystalline solids by their lack of long-
range structural order. At the level of two-body structural correlations, glassformers show no …

Anisotropy of building blocks and their assembly into complex structures

SC Glotzer, MJ Solomon - Nature materials, 2007 - nature.com
A revolution in novel nanoparticles and colloidal building blocks has been enabled by
recent breakthroughs in particle synthesis. These new particles are poised to become the …