Issue 16, 2014

Confotronic dynamics of tubular filaments

Abstract

Tubular lattices are ubiquitous in nature and technology. Microtubules and nanotubes of all kinds act as important pillars of biological cells and the man-made nano-world. We show that when prestress is introduced in such structures, localized conformational quasiparticles emerge and govern the collective shape dynamics of the lattice. When coupled via cooperative interactions these quasiparticles form larger-scale quasipolymer superstructures exhibiting collective dynamic modes and giving rise to a hallmark behavior radically different from semiflexible beams.

Graphical abstract: Confotronic dynamics of tubular filaments

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
11 Dec 2013
Accepted
12 Feb 2014
First published
12 Feb 2014

Soft Matter, 2014,10, 2836-2847

Confotronic dynamics of tubular filaments

O. Kahraman, H. Mohrbach, M. M. Müller and I. M. Kulić, Soft Matter, 2014, 10, 2836 DOI: 10.1039/C3SM53084A

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