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Hydrodynamics of spike proteins dictate a transport-affinity competition for SARS-CoV-2 and other enveloped viruses
Moreno, N.
; Moreno-Chaparro, D.; Balboa, F.; Ellero, M. (2022-12-01)
Many viruses, such as SARS-CoV-2 or Influenza, possess envelopes decorated with surface proteins (a.k.a. spikes). Depending on the virus type, a large variability is present in the surface-proteins number, morphology and ...
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Metallic microswimmers driven up the wall by gravity
Brosseau, Quentin; Balboa, F.; Lushi, Enkeleida; Wu, Yang; Ristroph, Leif; Ward, Michael D.; Shelley, Michael J.; Zhang, Jun (2021-07-21)
Experiments on autophoretic bimetallic nanorods propelling within a fuel of hydrogen peroxide show that tail-heavy swimmers preferentially orient upwards and ascend along inclined planes. We show that such gravitaxis is ...
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Motile dislocations knead odd crystals into whorls
Bililign, E. S.; Balboa, F.; Ganan, Y. A.; Poncet, A.; Soni, V.; Magkiriadou, S.; Shelley, M.J.; Bartolo, D.; Irvine, W.T.M. (2021-01-01)
The competition between thermal fluctuations and potential forces governs the stability of matter in equilibrium, in particular the proliferation and annihilation of topological defects. However, driving matter out of ...
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A numerical method for suspensions of articulated bodies in viscous flows
Balboa, F.; Delmotte, B. (2022-09-01)
An articulated body is defined as a finite number of rigid bodies connected by a set of arbitrary constraints that limit the relative motion between pairs of bodies. Such a general definition encompasses a wide variety of ...