Bio-Soft Matter Journal Club

2025

• 4.23 [Huaping Li] Slower melting upon heating in RNA hairpin conformational transition
• 4.9 [Chen Zhao] Capillary filling dynamics in polygonal tubes
• 2.26 [Hitoshi Washizu] Molecular simulation of friction and wear
• 2.19 [Letian Chen] Numerical investigation of the Brownian q = 2 Potts model
• 1.6 [Masao Doi] Anomalous swelling behavior of glassy polymers

2024

• 12.18 [Jinglei Hu] Theoretical study of cadherin-mediated cell adhesion
• 12.4 Workshop on Soft Matter Rheology (private)

• 11.22 Non-equilibrium Phenomena in Living Matter (private)

• 10.16 [Haim Diamant] Studying non-equilibrium systems using entropy bounds
• 8.29 [Haiqin Wang] Report on "Boulder School 2024"
• 8.21 [Gerald Fuller] Viscoelasticity of airway mucus
• 8.14 [Yuta Tateyama] Spatiotemporal pattern formation in the one-dimensional non-reciprocal Swift-Hohenberg model
• 8.14 [Hiroyuki Kitahata] Hydrodynamic simulation of density oscillators: Bifurcation and synchronization
• 7.22 [Shigeyuki Komura] Edinburgh, London, Göttingen
• 7.22 [Ye Xu] Imaging microscopic deformation in soft and biological materials: micro-mechanics experiments and applications
• 7.22 [Fanlong Meng] Bio-inspired physical modelling: multiflagellated swimming and cilia synchronisation
• 6.5 [Kento Yasuda] Statistical formulation of Onsager-Machlup variational principle
• 5.27–28 Odd Workshop (pictures) (private)

• 5.15 [Jean Wolff] Phase transition and budding in lipid membranes
• 4.10 [Xianan Qin] Increased confinement and polydispersity of STIM1 and Orai1 after Ca2+ store depletion
• 4.3 [Tetsuo Yamaguchi] Structure and mechanics of wood
• 3.20 [Toshikaze Chiba] Morphogenesis of multicellular systems revealed by vesicle aggregates and cancer organoids
• 3.13 [Zhongqiang Xiong] Ridge instability in dense suspensions caused by the second normal stress difference
• 1.29–30 Advanced core-to-core network for the physics of self-organizing active matter (program) (snapshots) (day1) (day2) (private)

• 1.17 [Zhanfeng Wang] Computational study of the catalytic mechanism of enzymes: the importance of electrostatic interactions

2023

• 12.14 [Jure Dobnikar] Viral assembly and packing of genome
• 12.14 [Erdal C. Oğuz] Hyperuniformity of quasicrystals
• 12.12-13 WIUCAS Bio-Soft Matter Workshop 2023 (pictures) (video)
• 11.29 [Shigeyuki Komura] Smectic rheology
• 11.15 [Changhao Li] Derivation of Single-Photon Entropy and Applications
• 11.14 [Peng Liu] Entropy Effect and Collective Behavior of Active Soft Matter
• 11.1 [Yang Cui] Pressure driven flow of dense suspensions simulated by lattice-Boltzmann coupled discrete element method
• 10.18 [Atahualpa S. Kraemer] Dynamic neighbors: phase and jamming transitions in hard-sphere fluids
• 9.27 [Hou Zhanglin, Jiang Yujie, Zhao Zhiyuan, Zheng Bin, Xiong Zhongqiang] Reports on the conferences in Japan
• 9.22 [Kumiko Hayashi] Extreme-Value Analysis of Intracellular Cargo Transport by Motor Proteins
• 8.16 [Lishing Lin] Emergence of odd elasticity revealed by Onsager's variational principle and machine learning
• 8.11 [Xinpeng Xu] Spontaneous Bending of Hydra Tissue Fragments Driven by Supracellular Actomyosin Bundles
• 8.10 [Haiqin Wang] Theory of living matter physics -- A phenomenological paradigm for cell migration on solid surfaces
• 7.26 [Ke Xiao] Force-induced wrapping phase transition of membrane by self-propelled particles
• 7.14 [Xingkun Man] The Dynamics of Gel Swelling
• 7.14 [Hiroyuki Kitahata] Surface-tension-driven motion of a particledepending on the particle shape
• 6.21 [Ziluo Zhang] Doi-Peliti field theory of non-reciprical interaction
• 5.26 [Zhe Gou] Biochemical signaling in microcirculation
• 4.28 [Hongguang Zhang] Theoretical and simulation study on micro- and nano-bubbles and droplet
• 3.29 [Rudi Podgornik] Field theory of structured liquid dielectrics
• 3.22 [Cheng Yang] Ultra-high-density Local Structure in Liquid Water
• 3.15 [Zhongqiang Xiong] Molecular constitutive equation for unentangled branch copolymers
• 3.10 [Shiyuan Hu] The effect of hydrodynamic interactions on multi-filament swimming
• 3.8 [Erdal C. Oğuz] Exotic Mechanics in Complex Metamaterials
• 3.8 [Qinyi Liao] Self-propelled and sheared particulate systems are similar in jamming, glass and rheology
• 2.22 [Zilong Guo] Magnetic Tweezers Reveal Unfolding and Refolding Dynamics of Globular Proteins
• 2.8 [Chen Zhao] Capillary rising in a tube with corners
• 2.8 [Jiajia Zhou] Capillary Filling of Polymer Chains in Nanopores

2022

• 12.7 [Xuefeng Wei] Elastically-mediated collective organization of magnetic microparticles
• 11.23 [Yankai Li] Impact of granular inclusions on the phase behavior of colloidal gels
• 11.9 [Yuto Hosaka] Nonreciprocal response induced by odd viscosity
• 11.2 [Zhiwei Liu] Normal stresses of yield stress fluids under yielding transition in large amplitude oscillatory shear
• 10.19 [Bin Zheng] Universality in the dynamics of vesicle translocation through a hole
• 9.28 [Zhongqiang Xiong] A nonlinear constitutive model for entangled symmetric dendrimers
• 9.7 [Shigeyuki Komura] Catalysis-Induced Phase Separation and Autoregulation of Enzymatic Activity
• 8.31 [Zhanglin Hou] A New Type of Two-Dimensional Melting Transition Revealed in Truncated Hexagons
• 8.24 [Mengqi Zhang] Reinforcement-learning-based control of convectively-unstable flows
• 8.17 [Zhiwei Liu] Wall slip behavior of thixotropic yield stress fluids under large amplitude oscillatory shear
• 8.10 [Yujie Jiang] Colloidal gelation with non-sticky doping
• 8.10 [Jiajia Zhou] Wetting Dynamics in a Rectangular Channel
• 8.9 [Xu Ye] 胶体溶液中微纳米颗粒的动态行为
• 7.29 [Yanwei Li] Local Plastic Response and Slow Heterogeneous Dynamics of Supercooled Liquids
• 7.21 [Yanting Wang] Statistical Problems of Soft Matter
• 7.20 [Xingkun Man] The dynamics of droplet evaporation
• 7.6 [Guangle Du] Trapping Instability of an Active Particle in Steering Potential Fields
• 6.22 [Weihua Mu] Understanding the Optimal Cooperativity of Human Glucokinase: Kinetic Resonance in Nonequilibrium Conformational Fluctuations
• 6.8 [Joan Codina] Small Obstacle in a Large Polar Flock
• 5.25 [Yujie Jiang] Evaporation of Binary-Mixture Liquid Droplets: The Formation of Picoliter Pancakelike Shapes
• 5.12 [Zhiwei Liu] Linear and nonlinear rheology of oil in liquid crystal emulsions
• 4.27 [Airi Nakamoto Kato] Active colloid with externally induced periodic bipolar motility
• 4.20 [Airi Nakamoto Kato] Active colloid with externally induced periodic bipolar motility
• 4.13 [Bin Zheng] Conductivity of Concentrated Electrolytes
• 4.6 [Hao Wu] How to unloop a self-adherent sheet
• 3.30 [Zhiyuan Zhao] Fluctuating hydrodynamics of chiral active fluids
• 3.23 [Huaping Li] Modeling Elastically Mediated Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation
• 3.9 [Zhanglin Hou] Physical determinants of the self-replication of protein fibrils
• 3.2 [Rudi Podgornik] Fluctuation-induced quantum friction in nanoscale water flows
• 2.23 [Shigeyuki Komura] Intracellular softening and increased viscoelastic fluidity during division
• 2.16 [Yujie Jiang] A mechanorheological memory suspension
• 2.9 [Ryohei Seto] Explicit Analytical Solution for Random Close Packing in d=2 and d=3
• 1.19 [Zhiwei Liu] Correlation between linear and nonlinear material functions under large amplitude oscillatory shear
• 1.12 [Airi Nakamoto Kato] Spontaneously rotating clusters of active droplets
• 1.5 [Bin Zheng] The pH-dependent Swelling of Weak Polyelectrolyte Hydrogels Modeled at Different Levels of Resolution

2021

• 12.29 [Hao Wu] Microswimmers learning chemotaxis with genetic algorithms
• 12.22 [Huaping Li] Role of Helicity in DNA Hairpin Folding Dynamics
• 12.15 [Zhiyuan Zhao] Activity waves and freestanding vortices in populations of subcritical Quincke rollers
• 12.8 [Zhanglin Hou]
• 12.1 [Shigeyuki Komura] Active droploids