Pattern formation driven by nematic ordering of assembling biopolymers
| dc.creator | Ziebert, Falko | |
| dc.creator | Zimmermann, Walter | |
| dc.date | 2003-04-28 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T02:51:02Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T02:51:02Z | |
| dc.description | The biopolymers actin and microtubules are often in an ongoing assembling/disassembling state far from thermal equilibrium. Above a critical density this leads to spatially periodic patterns, as shown by a scaling argument and in terms of a phenomenological continuum model, that meets also Onsager's statistical theory of the nematic--to--isotropic transition in the absence of reaction kinetics. This pattern forming process depends much on nonlinear effects and a common linear stability analysis of the isotropic distribution of the filaments is often misleading. The wave number of the pattern decreases with the assembling/disassembling rate and there is an uncommon discontinuous transition between the nematic and the periodic state. | |
| dc.description | 4 pages, 3 figures | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0304635 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0304635 | |
| dc.identifier | Phys. Rev. E 70, 022902 (2004) | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.70.022902 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/21309 | |
| dc.subject | Soft Condensed Matter | |
| dc.title | Pattern formation driven by nematic ordering of assembling biopolymers | |
| dc.type | text |