The European Physical Journal E (EPJ E)

Open Access

Editorial

David Andelman, Jean-Marc Di Meglio and Cyrus R. Safinya

Published online: 26 June 2024

DOI: 10.1140/epje/s10189-024-00439-2

Regular Article - Living Systems

Effects of local incompressibility on the rheology of composite biopolymer networks

Anupama Gannavarapu, Sadjad Arzash, Iain Muntz, Jordan L. Shivers, Anna-Maria Klianeva, Gijsje H. Koenderink and Fred C. MacKintosh

Published online: 27 May 2024

DOI: 10.1140/epje/s10189-024-00422-x

Open Access

Regular Article - Soft Matter

Quantitative comparison of cell–cell detachment force in different experimental setups

Amit Singh Vishen, Jacques Prost and Pierre Sens

Published online: 02 April 2024

DOI: 10.1140/epje/s10189-024-00416-9

Open Access

Regular Article - Living Systems

Mechanosensitivity of phase separation in an elastic gel

Dan Deviri and Samuel A. Safran

Published online: 20 February 2024

DOI: 10.1140/epje/s10189-024-00405-y

Open Access

Regular Article - Living Systems

Many-body interactions between contracting living cells

Roman Golkov and Yair Shokef

Published online: 19 February 2024

DOI: 10.1140/epje/s10189-024-00407-w

Open Access

Regular Article - Soft Matter

From isolated polyelectrolytes to star-like assemblies: the role of sequence heterogeneity on the statistical structure of the intrinsically disordered neurofilament-low tail domain

Mathar Kravikass, Gil Koren, Omar A. Saleh and Roy Beck

Published online: 15 February 2024

DOI: 10.1140/epje/s10189-024-00409-8

Regular Article - Soft Matter

Dynamic structure factor of undulating vesicles: finite-size and spherical geometry effects with application to neutron spin echo experiments

Rony Granek, Ingo Hoffmann, Elizabeth G. Kelley, Michihiro Nagao, Petia M. Vlahovska and Anton Zilman

Published online: 14 February 2024

DOI: 10.1140/epje/s10189-023-00400-9

Open Access

Regular Article - Living Systems

Vesicle condensation induced by synapsin: condensate size, geometry, and vesicle shape deformations

Jette Alfken, Charlotte Neuhaus, András Major, Alyona Taskina, Christian Hoffmann, Marcelo Ganzella, Arsen Petrovic, David Zwicker, Rubén Fernández-Busnadiego, Reinhard Jahn et al. (2 more)

Published online: 25 January 2024

DOI: 10.1140/epje/s10189-023-00404-5

Regular Article - Soft Matter

Scaling regimes for wormlike chains confined to cylindrical surfaces under tension

Greg Morrison and D. Thirumalai

Published online: 22 January 2024

DOI: 10.1140/epje/s10189-023-00384-6

Open Access

Regular Article - Living Systems

Multispherical shapes of vesicles with intramembrane domains

Reinhard Lipowsky

Published online: 11 January 2024

DOI: 10.1140/epje/s10189-023-00399-z

Regular Article - Living Systems

Physical insights into biological memory using phospholipid membranes

Dima Bolmatov, C. Patrick Collier, John Katsaras and Maxim O. Lavrentovich

Published online: 11 January 2024

DOI: 10.1140/epje/s10189-023-00391-7

Regular Article - Living Systems

Non-specific cargo–filament interactions slow down motor-driven transport

Joelle A. Labastide, David A. Quint, Reilly K. Cullen, Bryan Maelfeyt, Jennifer L. Ross and Ajay Gopinathan

Published online: 21 December 2023

DOI: 10.1140/epje/s10189-023-00394-4

Open Access

Regular Article - Soft Matter

Electrostatics and hydrophobicity in the dynamics of intrinsically disordered proteins

Renee Vancraenenbroeck and Hagen Hofmann

Published online: 21 December 2023

DOI: 10.1140/epje/s10189-023-00383-7

Regular Article - Soft Matter

Lipids with negative spontaneous curvature decrease the solubility of the cancer drug paclitaxel in liposomes

Victoria Steffes, Scott MacDonald, John Crowe, Meena Murali, Kai K. Ewert, Youli Li and Cyrus R. Safinya

Published online: 15 December 2023

DOI: 10.1140/epje/s10189-023-00388-2

Open Access

Regular Article – Flowing Matter

Lipid vesicle pools studied by passive X-ray microrheology

Titus Czajka, Charlotte Neuhaus, Jette Alfken, Moritz Stammer, Yuriy Chushkin, Diego Pontoni, Christian Hoffmann, Dragomir Milovanovic and Tim Salditt

Published online: 07 December 2023

DOI: 10.1140/epje/s10189-023-00375-7

Open Access

Regular Article - Soft Matter

Induced phase transformation in ionizable colloidal nanoparticles

Leticia López-Flores and Monica Olvera de la Cruz

Published online: 07 December 2023

DOI: 10.1140/epje/s10189-023-00386-4

Open Access

Regular Article – Soft Matter

Spontaneous bilayer wrapping of virus particles by a phospholipid Langmuir monolayer

J. F. Torres-Salgado, M. V. Villagrana-Escareño, A. L. Duran-Meza, X. F. Segovia-Gonzalez, R. D. Cadena-Nava, W. M. Gelbart, C. M. Knobler and J. Ruiz-García

Published online: 05 December 2023

DOI: 10.1140/epje/s10189-023-00366-8

Open Access

Regular Article - Flowing Matter

Chilling alcohol on the computer: isothermal compressibility and the formation of hydrogen-bond clusters in liquid propan-1-ol

Luis A. Baptista, Mauricio Sevilla, Manfred Wagner, Kurt Kremer and Robinson Cortes-Huerto

Published online: 29 November 2023

DOI: 10.1140/epje/s10189-023-00380-w

Regular Article - Flowing Matter

Surface tension between liquids containing antagonistic and regular salts

Roni Kroll, Moshe Gottlieb and Yoav Tsori

Published online: 29 November 2023

DOI: 10.1140/epje/s10189-023-00378-4

Regular Article

Electrostatic interactions between charge regulated spherical macroions

Hu Ruixuan, Arghya Majee, Jure Dobnikar and Rudolf Podgornik

Published online: 29 November 2023

DOI: 10.1140/epje/s10189-023-00373-9

Regular Article - Living Systems

MFG-E8: a model of multiple binding modes associated with ps-binding proteins

Tiffany Suwatthee, Daniel Kerr, Sofiya Maltseva, Charles L. Dulberger, Luke Hyeondo Hwang, Benjamin R. Slaw, Wei Bu, Binhua Lin, Erin J. Adams and Ka Yee C. Lee

Published online: 24 November 2023

DOI: 10.1140/epje/s10189-023-00372-w

Regular Article - Living Systems

Effects of cytoskeletal network mesh size on cargo transport

Nimisha Krishnan, Niranjan Sarpangala, Maria Gamez, Ajay Gopinathan and Jennifer L. Ross

Published online: 10 November 2023

DOI: 10.1140/epje/s10189-023-00358-8

Regular Article – Soft Matter

Effect of ionic strength on the assembly of simian vacuolating virus capsid protein around poly(styrene sulfonate)

Roi Asor, Surendra W. Singaram, Yael Levi-Kalisman, Michael F. Hagan and Uri Raviv

Published online: 02 November 2023

DOI: 10.1140/epje/s10189-023-00363-x

Regular Article - Flowing Matter

Permanent shear localization in dense disordered materials due to microscopic inertia

Vishwas V. Vasisht, Magali Le Goff, Kirsten Martens and Jean-Louis Barrat

Published online: 02 November 2023

DOI: 10.1140/epje/s10189-023-00367-7

Regular Article – Flowing Matter

Anomalous diffusion of lithium-anion clusters in ionic liquids

YeongKyu Lee, JunBeom Cho, Junseong Kim, Won Bo Lee and YongSeok Jho

Published online: 02 November 2023

DOI: 10.1140/epje/s10189-023-00365-9

Open Access

Regular Article – Flowing Matter

Active Ising Models of flocking: a field-theoretic approach

Mattia Scandolo, Johannes Pausch and Michael E. Cates

Published online: 26 October 2023

DOI: 10.1140/epje/s10189-023-00364-w

Regular Article - Living Systems

Pincus blob elasticity in an intrinsically disordered protein

Hoang P. Truong, Ian L. Morgan, Gil Koren, Ram Avinery, Roy Beck and Omar A. Saleh

Published online: 17 October 2023

DOI: 10.1140/epje/s10189-023-00360-0

Regular Article – Living Systems

Characterizing the heterogeneity of membrane liquid-ordered domains

Tanmoy Sarkar and Oded Farago

Published online: 17 October 2023

DOI: 10.1140/epje/s10189-023-00359-7

Regular Article – Soft Matter

Explicit solvent machine-learned coarse-grained model of sodium polystyrene sulfonate to capture polymer structure and dynamics

Phillip A. Taylor and Mark J. Stevens

Published online: 13 October 2023

DOI: 10.1140/epje/s10189-023-00355-x

Regular Article – Soft Matter

Coarse-grained explicit-solvent molecular dynamics simulations of semidilute unentangled polyelectrolyte solutions

Jan-Michael Carrillo, Yangyang Wang, Rajeev Kumar and Bobby G. Sumpter

Published online: 05 October 2023

DOI: 10.1140/epje/s10189-023-00342-2

Regular Article – Soft Matter

Charge-driven liquid-crystalline behavior of ligand-functionalized nanorods in apolar solvent

Jeongmo Kim, Zijun Wang, Khalid Lahlil, Patrick Davidson, Thierry Gacoin and Jongwook Kim

Published online: 25 September 2023

DOI: 10.1140/epje/s10189-023-00345-z

Regular Article – Soft Matter

On the force between “rafts”

D. W. Allender and M. Schick

Published online: 22 September 2023

DOI: 10.1140/epje/s10189-023-00347-x

Regular Article – Flowing Matter

Granular convergence as an iterated local map

Anna Movsheva and Thomas A. Witten

Published online: 18 September 2023

DOI: 10.1140/epje/s10189-023-00343-1

Tips and Tricks -- Soft Matter

Spin-up flow in ferrofluids: a toy model

R. E. Rosensweig

Published online: 18 September 2023

DOI: 10.1140/epje/s10189-023-00340-4

Open Access

Regular Article – Soft Matter

Electroresponse of weak polyelectrolyte brushes

Christopher Balzer and Zhen-Gang Wang

Published online: 14 September 2023

DOI: 10.1140/epje/s10189-023-00341-3

Regular Article - Soft Matter

Preparation and stability of pegylated poly(S-alkyl-L-homocysteine) coacervate core micelles in aqueous media

Isaac Benavides, Wendell A. Scott, Xiaoying Cai, Z. Hong Zhou and Timothy J. Deming

Published online: 14 September 2023

DOI: 10.1140/epje/s10189-023-00339-x

Open Access

Regular Article - Soft Matter

Renormalized charge and dielectric effects in colloidal interactions: a numerical solution of the nonlinear Poisson–Boltzmann equation for unknown boundary conditions

Alexander Schlaich, Sandeep Tyagi, Stefan Kesselheim, Marcello Sega and Christian Holm

Published online: 11 September 2023

DOI: 10.1140/epje/s10189-023-00334-2

Regular Article - Soft Matter

Fluctuations, structure, and size inside coacervates

Murugappan Muthukumar

Published online: 08 September 2023

DOI: 10.1140/epje/s10189-023-00335-1

Regular Article – Living Systems

Effect of cholesterol on the mechanical stability of gel-phase phospholipid bilayers studied by AFM force spectroscopy

Salomé Mielke, Raya Sorkin and Jacob Klein

Published online: 06 September 2023

DOI: 10.1140/epje/s10189-023-00338-y

Regular Article - Soft Matter

A molecularly informed field-theoretic study of the complexation of polycation PDADMA with mixed micelles of sodium dodecyl sulfate and ethoxylated surfactants

My Nguyen, Kevin Shen, Nicholas Sherck, Stephan Köhler, Rohini Gupta, Kris T. Delaney, M. Scott Shell and Glenn H. Fredrickson

Published online: 04 September 2023

DOI: 10.1140/epje/s10189-023-00332-4

Regular Article - Living Systems

Smart design of universally decorated nanoparticles for drug delivery applications driven by active transport

Gal Halbi, Itay Fayer, Dina Aranovich, Shachar Gat, Mariela J. Pavan, Dikla Nachmias, Daniel Sevilla Sanchez, Ashraf Brik, Rony Granek and Anne Bernheim-Groswasser

Published online: 31 August 2023

DOI: 10.1140/epje/s10189-023-00331-5