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  Accurate gene consensus at low nanopore coverage

  Nanopore technologies allow high-throughput sequencing of long strands of DNA at the cost of a relatively large error rate. This limits its use in the reading of amplicon libraries in which there are only a few mutations per variant and (...)

  
  
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  Interactions between proteins and cellulose in a liquid crystalline media: Design of a droplet based experimental platform

  Model systems are needed to provide controlled environment for the understanding of complex phenomena. Interaction between polysaccharides and proteins in dense medium are involved in numerous complex systems such as biomass conversion or plant (...)

  
  
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  Computational design of a minimal catalyst using colloidal particles with programmable interactions

  Catalysis, the acceleration of chemical reactions by molecules that are not consumed in the process, is essential to living organisms but remains absent in physical systems that aspire to emulate biological functionalities with artificial (...)

  
  
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  Multilevel selection in the evolution of sexual dimorphism in phenotypic plasticity

  Phenotypes are partly shaped by the environment, which can impact bothshort-term adaptation and long-term evolution. In dioecious species, thetwo sexes may exhibit different degrees of phenotypic plasticity and theor-etical models indicate that (...)

  
  
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  Silicon chambers for enhanced incubation and imaging of microfluidic droplets

  Droplet microfluidics has become a powerful tool in life sciences, underlying digital assays, single-cell sequencing or directed evolution, and it is making foray in physical sciences as well. Imaging and incubation of droplets are crucial, yet (...)

  
  
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  Nanoparticle Taylor Dispersion Near Charged Surfaces with an Open Boundary

  The dispersive spreading of microscopic particles in shear flows is influenced both by advection and thermal motion. At the nanoscale, interactions between such particles and their confining boundaries become unavoidable. We address the roles (...)

  
  
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  Dramatic Effect of Water Structure on Hydration Forces and the Electrical Double Layer

  Forces between hydrophilic surfaces mediated by water are important in various systems from lipid membranes and solid surfaces to colloids and macromolecules, first discovered as a significant addition to DLVO forces at the nanoscale. These (...)

  
  
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  Statistical self-organization of a gas of interacting walking drops in a confining potential

  A drop bouncing on a vertically-vibrated surface may self-propel forward by standing waves and travels along a fluid interface. This system called walking drop forms a non-quantum wave-particle association at the macroscopic scale. The dynamics (...)

  
  
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  Helfrich-Hurault elastic instabilities driven by geometrical frustration

  The Helfrich-Hurault (HH) elastic instability is a well-known mechanism behind patterns that form as a result of strain upon liquid crystal systems with periodic ground states. In the HH model, layered structures undulate and buckle in response (...)

  
  
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  Morphological computation and decentralized learning in a swarm of sterically interacting robots

  Whereas naturally occurring swarms thrive when crowded, physical interactions in robotic swarms are either avoided or carefully controlled, thus limiting their operational density. Here, we present a mechanical design rule that allows robots to (...)

  
  

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