The assembly of biomolecules into condensates is a fundamental process underlying the organisation of the intracellular space and the regulation of many cellular functions. Mapping and characterising phase behaviour of biomolecules is essential to understand the mechanisms of condensate assembly, and to develop therapeutic strategies targeting biom...
Published in Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)
Molecular materials possessing photo-tunable polarization switching is promising for optical switches, smart sensors, and data storage devices. However, it is challenging to devise a molecular material featuring simultaneous switchable magnetic and dielectric properties with regard to non-invasive and convenient light stimulus. Herein, we report a ...
Active matter is intrinsically out of equilibrium because energy is converted into systematic motion by its constituents, and exhibit fascinating collective phenomena. One of them is phase separation between dense and dilute regions which, unlike in equilibrium, can happen even in absence of attraction among particles.In this Thesis, we study phase...
Published in Brazilian Journal of Physics
The use of partition function zeros in the study of phase transitions is growing in the last decade mainly due to improved numerical methods as well as novel formulations and analysis. In this paper, the impact of different parameters choice for the energy probability distribution (EPD) zeros that were recently introduced by Costa et al. is explore...
Published in General Relativity and Gravitation
We disclose the effects of Lifshitz dynamical exponent z on the properties of holographic paramagnetic-ferromagnetic phase transition in the background of Lifshitz spacetime. To preserve the conformal invariance in higher dimensions, we consider the Power-Maxwell (PM) electrodynamics as our gauge field. We introduce a massive 2-form coupled to the ...
This thesis work is devoted to the modelling and study of long-range behaviors and spatiotemporal effects occurring during thermal hysteresis mostly due to frustration driven phase transitions in Spin-Crossover (SCO) systems.The study of different Spin-Crossover systems (Core-Shell, MEMS/NEMS) with different geometric forms during their thermo-indu...
Magnesite was successfully synthesized from hydromagnesite by undergoing a phase transition process in monoethylene glycol (MEG) solution. The process can be achieved at 393 K under 0.5 MPa of CO2 in 5 h, and the formed particle size of magnesite ranges from 1 to 10 mu m depending on the synthesis temperature. This study discloses the effect of MEG...
Liquid-liquid phase separation of proteins underpins the formation of membraneless compartments in living cells. Elucidating the molecular driving forces underlying protein phase transitions is therefore a key objective for understanding biological function and malfunction. Here we show that cellular proteins, which form condensates at low salt con...
This paper presents a model of capital accumulation for a large number of heterogenous producer-consumers in an exchange space in which interactions depend on agents' positions. Each agent is described by his production, consumption, stock of capital, as well as the position he occupies in this abstract space. Each agent produces one differentiated...
Proteins containing intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) are ubiquitous within biomolecular condensates, which are liquid-like compartments within cells formed through liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS). The sequence of amino acids of a protein encodes its phase behaviour, not only by establishing the patterning and chemical nature (e.g., hyd...
