• Here, we found that the C-terminus of IRS-1 undergoes liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS). (nature.com)
  • Importantly, metabolic disease-derived G972R mutation results in a reduced ability of LLPS, potentially implicating the involvement of aberrant IRS-1 phase separation in various metabolic disorders. (nature.com)
  • These organelles are biomolecular condensates of proteins and nucleic acids and are formed via a process called liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS). (researchmatters.in)
  • Similarly, a homogeneously mixed protein solution may convert via LLPS into a dense phase comprising liquid droplets, and a light dilute phase. (researchmatters.in)
  • In recent work, we could demonstrate that MBP performs a liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) under crowding conditions in vitro. (lu.se)
  • Spinodal decomposition and subsequent Ostwald ripening appear to be main driving forces for LLPS droplet formation of MBP in vitro. (lu.se)
  • Recent studies found Axin ( 6 ) and the DC ( 7 ) undergo liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) and drive DC assembly. (rupress.org)
  • For protein systems, we focus on block proteins that undergo liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) as a preassembly step for structural protein materials. (aalto.fi)
  • N protein can also undergo liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) with viral genome RNA and inhibit stress granules to facilitate viral replication and assembly. (ijbs.com)
  • Pex13 undergoes liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) with Pex5-cargo. (tcdb.org)
  • We encapsulated a reconstituted in vitro transcription-translation system inside a cell-sized phospholipid vesicle together with the DNA encoding membrane protein of interest. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • In this study, researchers showed that under certain conditions related to temperature, salt and protein concentrations, hnRNPA1's disordered tail prompts the protein to condense into liquid droplets through a process called liquid phase separation. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • Protein-rich droplets that formed through a process called liquid phase separation fuse and grow under the microscope. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • When hnRNPA1 with mutations in the disordered tail underwent liquid phase separation and concentrated into droplets, the protein almost immediately formed amyloid-like fibrils. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • If the mutant protein did not concentrate into droplets, however, toxic fibrils did not form. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • In a recent study , researchers at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Mohali, have studied the mechanism behind the phase separation of the tau protein fragment that forms characteristic aggregates associated with Alzheimer's disease. (researchmatters.in)
  • The tau protein is known to undergo phase separation to form liquid droplets under natural conditions. (researchmatters.in)
  • The study found that in the phase-separated liquid droplets, the unwinding of tau's polypeptide chains allow the chains to interact with each other, giving rise to the fluidic nature of the protein assembly. (researchmatters.in)
  • Firstly, I learned several techniques important for biochemistry research, including operating our lab's fast protein liquid chromatography (FPLC) machine, which purifies the proteins we want from other proteins present in the bacteria. (upenn.edu)
  • Elegant studies have demonstrated Dvl-mediated formation of a membrane proximal "signalosome," which enables critical protein interactions at the PM ( 5 ). (rupress.org)
  • In the article " Intrinsically disordered regions in TRPV2 mediate protein-protein interactions ", Raghavendar R. Sanganna Gari, Grigory Tagiltsev, Ruth A. Pumroy, Yining Jiang, Martin Blackledge, Vera Y. Moiseenkova-Bell and Simon Scheuring imaged TRPV2 channels in membranes using high-speed atomic force microscopy (HS-AFM). (nanoworld.com)
  • Scientists at the University of Sheffield looked to overcome this hurdle by developing an automated small-scale analytical platform workflow, combining purification and aggregation analysis of protein biopharmaceuticals expressed in 96 deep well plate cell cultures.4 Their workflow utilized a liquid handler equipped with a protein-A PhyTip column for purification and a size-exclusion chromatography (SEC) column for aggregate monitoring. (technologynetworks.com)
  • Over two dozen proteins involved in protein import and membrane insertion, peroxins, encoded by PEX genes, have been characterized. (tcdb.org)
  • In the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae , the minimal transport machinery includes the membrane proteins Pex13 and Pex14 and the cargo-protein-binding transport receptor, Pex5. (tcdb.org)
  • Pex4p is a membrane protein that may facilitate cycling of Pex5p back to the cytosol. (tcdb.org)
  • In biochemistry, biomolecular condensates are a class of membrane-less organelles and organelle subdomains, which carry out specialized functions within the cell. (wikipedia.org)
  • Unlike many organelles, biomolecular condensate composition is not controlled by a bounding membrane. (wikipedia.org)
  • Stress granules are just one type of the membrane-less structures or organelles that assemble as needed to handle various cell functions and then rapidly disperse. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • Biology textbooks teach us that all eukaryotic cells contain a variety of membrane-bound organelles that compartmentalise the cell, store specific molecules, and perform specialised functions. (researchmatters.in)
  • However, a growing body of current research reveals that there exists another type of organelles called membrane-less organelles. (researchmatters.in)
  • I will present my recent progress on the formation of membrane-less organelles through liquid-liquid phase separation of intrinsically disordered proteins, and my future plans for this work. (asu.edu)
  • The popular schematic is a crowded cell with organelles bound by membranes, and they each do their own little thing and carry out the cell's function. (princeton.edu)
  • But what was found out was that a lot of these compartmentalized organelles don't actually have membranes. (princeton.edu)
  • Picture this: these liquid droplets, these organelles, form primarily by a mechanism called liquid-liquid phase separation, in which you have droplets spontaneously assembling and disassembling. (princeton.edu)
  • Membraneless intracellular compartments formed through liquid-liquid phase separation from the surrounding CYTOPLASM or nucleoplasm or by the concentration of proteins and nucleic acids into droplets as they aggregate on static cellular structures such as CELL MEMBRANES. (bvsalud.org)
  • Professor Shum's team found that the evaporation of an aqueous two-phase system (ATPS) droplet could trigger the liquid-liquid phase separation to form two separated membrane-less compartmentalization, associating with non-uniform partitioning of solutes in different phases ( Nature Communication s, 2021). (topbuzzmagazine.com)
  • They used laser light as a tool in two ways, dynamic light scattering and phase microscopy, that allowed them to demonstrate the existence of stable nanodroplets of tetrahydrofuran (THF) in the bulk of aqueous electrolyte solutions and to develop a new theory that explains the spontaneous generation of heterogeneous nanoparticles in aqueous solutions of polar organic solutes in terms of nanodroplet formation due to "twinkling" hydrogen bonds. (nanowerk.com)
  • In an article appearing this week in the Journal of Chemical Physics ( 'Droplet-like heterogeneity of aqueous tetrahydrofuran solutions at the submicrometer scale' ), a research team that included scientists from four different Moscow institutions used THF, which has infinite solubility in water and which, in aqueous solutions of low THF concentrations, allows observation of abnormally high scattering of light due to the spontaneous formation of some heterogeneous centers. (nanowerk.com)
  • Combining dynamic light scattering with a novel experimental technique called laser phase microscopy that can measure the refractive index of nanometer-scale objects in liquids in addition to their sizes, allowed them to determine that the nanodroplets being observed in aqueous mixtures of THF at low concentrations basically consist of pure THF. (nanowerk.com)
  • Intuition suggests that the spontaneous formation of pure THF droplets in dilute aqueous solutions should be somehow controlled by the parameters of the interaction of water and THF molecules via hydrogen bonding. (nanowerk.com)
  • They are planning to carry out similar experiments with aqueous solutions of organic liquids from the furan group which has different polarizability and dipole moments, and with solutions of water isotopes (H 2 0, D 2 0 and deuterium depleted water) that have different energies of intermolecular hydrogen bond and to explore the role of dissolved gas. (nanowerk.com)
  • Endoskeletal droplets are tiny liquid droplets that are suspended in an aqueous or water medium. (colorado.edu)
  • The hydrophobic portion of the emulsifier dissolves in the oil phase, and the hydrophilic portion dissolves in the aqueous phase, forming a dispersion of small oil droplets. (songvault.fm)
  • The experiments confirmed this theoretical prediction, up to a limit: the coarsening is slowed down by the fragmentation of the less viscous phase into disconnected droplets. (esrf.fr)
  • Sintering - or coalescence - of viscous droplets is a fundamental process that occurs in many natural and industrial scenarios, such as the manufacture of ceramics, and the welding of volcanic ash. (durham.ac.uk)
  • Classical hydrodynamics focuses on pure liquids in a single phase. (balzan.org)
  • Classical hydrodynamics focuses on pure liquids. (balzan.org)
  • Since the two pure liquids are mixed in a fixed ratio, these particles should consist of THF and water in a certain ratio. (nanowerk.com)
  • Around the same time, Thomas Harrison Montgomery Jr. described the morphology of the nucleolus, an organelle within the nucleus, which has subsequently been shown to form through intracellular phase separation. (wikipedia.org)
  • Inset: Cryo-EM structure PDB 6U84 shown with the intracellular side up (as imaged by HS-AFM), membrane indicated in light gray. (nanoworld.com)
  • Instead, condensates can form and maintain organization through a range of different processes, the most well-known of which is phase separation of proteins, RNA and other biopolymers into either colloidal emulsions, gels, liquid crystals, solid crystals or aggregates within cells. (wikipedia.org)
  • Their work could boost health and drug advancements by giving researchers a better understanding of primary and secondary radiation forces in multiphase colloidal systems - such as emulsions, foams, membranes and gels. (colorado.edu)
  • Liquid emulsions and solid nanoparticles are used with ultrasound to deliver genes in vitro and in vivo. (hindawi.com)
  • WB Hardy linked formation of biological colloids with phase separation in his study of globulins, stating that: "The globulin is dispersed in the solvent as particles which are the colloid particles and which are so large as to form an internal phase", and further contributed to the basic physical description of oil-water phase separation. (wikipedia.org)
  • I also learned some techniques specific to membrane biochemistry, such as preparing GUV's, membrane spheres that mimic actual cell membranes, as well as some data-collecting techniques such as DLS which uses light scattering to ascertain the size of particles in a solution. (upenn.edu)
  • Since we have particles with two different acoustic properties in a single droplet - liquid and solid properties - they both are affected in different ways. (colorado.edu)
  • Particulate matter (PM) is a complex mixture of micrometric particles and liquid droplets made up of organic soot (VOCs) as well as inorganic particles as soil, dust, metals and acids (nitrates and sulphates). (oil-gasportal.com)
  • Of 2 glycoproteins on the surface of the RNA viral envelope, one mediates neuraminidase and hemagglutination activity, whereas the other is responsible for fusion to the lipid membrane of the host cell. (medscape.com)
  • The droplets have properties similar to stress granules, including the ability to fuse and grow. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • The droplets are similar to temporary structures called stress granules that build up in cells of patients with ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease). (neurosciencenews.com)
  • Taking advantage of the partitioning of solutes in phase-separated ATPS droplets and the droplet inner flow associated with the drying process, the team found that mono-sized nanoparticles would be non-uniformly distributed in two phases and self-assemble into photonic crystals with two different colors. (topbuzzmagazine.com)
  • These membraneless structures behave as liquid droplets in the cytoplasm or nucleoplasm. (nature.com)
  • In the 1980s and 1990s, Athene Donald's polymer physics lab in Cambridge extensively characterised phase transitions / phase separation of starch granules from the cytoplasm of plant cells, which behave as liquid crystals. (wikipedia.org)
  • Both liquid handlers and microfluidics coupled with analytical equipment such as high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and mass spectrometry (MS) have been showcased as effective for achieving this goal. (technologynetworks.com)
  • While new technologies enable the engineering of high titer cell clones, there is still a need to screen these clones quickly.1 The current paradigm for titer analysis depends on chromatographic approaches which, even with the newest ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography (UHPLC) models, will take minutes to analyze one cell line. (technologynetworks.com)
  • However, in most cases in nature and technology, liquid systems are multicomponent and multiphase, with phase transitions between the phases, and thus far from equilibrium. (balzan.org)
  • A successful quantitative description and one-to-one comparison between well-controlled experiments and theory and numerics can potentially be achieved for such systems, making it possible to identify the underlying principles, and to place these examples in the context of relevant applications of multicomponent and multiphase liquid systems. (balzan.org)
  • In particular, on a small scale, focus will be on solvent exchange and multicomponent droplet nucleation and dissolution, while on large scales multiphase and multicomponent turbulent Taylor-Couette flow will be emphasized. (balzan.org)
  • These developments are more than timely, as the relevance of physiochemical hydrodynamics of multicomponent and multiphase liquids has become increasingly important in facing challenges to mankind in the twenty-first century. (balzan.org)
  • In addition to maintaining specific organelle structures, phase separation enables hub proteins to assemble signalosomes which promote the speed of signaling outputs 11 , 12 . (nature.com)
  • Since these intrinsically disordered regions, which are conformationally dynamic and do not adopt stable secondary or tertiary structures, are often essential for mediating the phase transition of proteins 9 , it is therefore of interest to consider if the C-terminus of IRS-1 is involved in phase separation and to further delineate such implications upon insulin/IGF signaling. (nature.com)
  • MBP-mediated assembling of lipid bilayers proceeds in two steps, with a slow second step occurring over many days where native lipid membranes assemble into well-defined multilayer structures, whereas MS diseased lipid membranes form folded assemblies with high local curvature. (lu.se)
  • Moreover, this study demonstrated the possibility of manipulating internal structures of droplets and cells. (colorado.edu)
  • During the heat treatment, we were able to measure how the typical size of the domains increases in order to reduce the interfacial area where the two immiscible phases are in contact. (esrf.fr)
  • Homogenizer s function as mixers that reduce particle size or force immiscible liquids to mix. (songvault.fm)
  • In addition, liquid phase separation is probably important for a whole range of fundamental biological processes. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • An understanding of the physical processes on such solid-liquid interfaces helps us to produce long-living, clean surfaces. (mpg.de)
  • There are various treatment methods including oxidation processes, biological degradation, membrane filtration and coagulation/flocculation have been studied to treat dyeing wastewater. (intechopen.com)
  • 2011 ) have reviewed the processes by which matrix and membrane proteins are incorporated into the peroxysome. (tcdb.org)
  • However, constructing such molecular systems is a challenge because of the difficulties in working with membrane proteins, very hydrophobic molecules that are prone to aggregate. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • If quite a large amount of THF molecules, localized in a nanometer-scaled area of the liquid solution, simultaneously rupture the hydrogen bonds with the neighboring water molecules, a nanodroplet of pure THF is created in this area, a fact was observed in this experiment. (nanowerk.com)
  • b Overview HS-AFM images (Supplementary Movie 1) of TRPV2 (windmill-shaped molecules) in soy polar lipid membranes on mica (dark background areas). (nanoworld.com)
  • Therefore, it is important to unveil the pathway by which tau undergoes phase separation and maturation," he says. (researchmatters.in)
  • https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.202205069 ) show Dvl2 undergoes liquid-liquid phase separation to stabilize β-catenin by pulling Axin into its biomolecular condensate at the plasma membrane. (rupress.org)
  • However, the maturation or hardening of liquid condensates into a gel/solid-like state disrupts cellular functioning, resulting in the abnormal phase transition that is associated with neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's disease. (researchmatters.in)
  • IGF-1 stimulation enhanced IRS-1 phase separation which then recruited downstream effectors to form insulin/IGF signalosomes. (nature.com)
  • Beginning in the early 1970s, Harold M Farrell Jr. at the US Department of Agriculture developed a colloidal phase separation model for milk casein micelles that form within mammary gland cells before secretion as milk. (wikipedia.org)
  • These liquid droplets, thus separated, form condensates. (researchmatters.in)
  • In their molten state, some silicate glasses spontaneously phase-separate: they form domains of different compositions [1, 2] . (esrf.fr)
  • We know that interactions between proteins that contain SH3 domains and proteins that contain PRM sections lead to a phenomenon known as phase separation, in which the proteins cluster and form a droplet separate from the larger solution, like an oil droplet in water. (upenn.edu)
  • In other words, in a liquid state, these weak interactions have to be transient. (researchmatters.in)
  • For both native and diseased lipid mixtures we could show that MBP forms concentrated liquid-like phases on top of the lipid membranes mediating attractive membrane interactions. (lu.se)
  • Our project focused on physical interactions between a few different proteins that are involved in endocytosis, the process by which cells bend their membrane inwards to envelop outside material. (upenn.edu)
  • This includes their active interactions with membrane transporters that co-ordinate cellular uptake and processing. (universityofcalifornia.edu)
  • When you imagine these droplets spontaneously forming from a big blob, you'd naturally think it would be messy and random. (princeton.edu)
  • Nanowerk News ) A team of researchers in Russia worked together to shed new light on the heterogeneous nature of a polar organic liquid mixed with water. (nanowerk.com)
  • A new technology for rare-earth elements chemical separation has been licensed to Marshallton Research Laboratories, a North Carolina-based manufacturer of organic chemicals for a range of industries. (cookingpot.fr)
  • 1986. Movement of selected organic liquids into dry soils. (cdc.gov)
  • The objective of Detlef Lohse's Balzan research project is to explore well-defined examples of systems involving droplets and bubbles. (balzan.org)
  • They find that changes in permeability are linked to a topological inversion - from droplets in a continuous gas, to discrete bubbles in a continuous liquid - allowing them to construct a unified physical description of the sintering process. (durham.ac.uk)
  • We further identified that the 301-600 residues, as a self-association region (SAR), is essential to the formation of IRS-1 droplets and the transduction of insulin/IGF signaling. (nature.com)
  • The researchers of the current study used highly-sensitive fluorescence techniques to shed light on the formation of tau liquid droplets. (researchmatters.in)
  • Zheng is currently working on modeling intrinsically disordered proteins, including force field development, experimental data interpretation and liquid droplet formation. (asu.edu)
  • Using X-ray tomography at ID19 , we were able to visualise the formation of this microstructure in a barium borosilicate glass in three dimensions (3D), and observe the effect of the time spent in liquid state. (esrf.fr)
  • Such understanding of microstructure formation could lead to new ways of building tailored microstructures in phase-separated glasses. (esrf.fr)
  • Early evidence also suggested Dvl2 may phase separate via the DIX domain, since it was important for Dvl puncta formation ( 8 ). (rupress.org)
  • The membrane bound docking subcomplex includes several Pex proteins, Pex13p, 14p and 17p. (tcdb.org)
  • In 1991, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes received the Nobel Prize in Physics for developing a generalized theory of phase transitions with particular applications to describing ordering and phase transitions in polymers. (wikipedia.org)
  • Unfortunately, de Gennes wrote in Nature that polymers should be distinguished from other types of colloids, even though they can display similar clustering and phase separation behaviour, a stance that has been reflected in the reduced usage of the term colloid to describe the higher-order association behaviour of biopolymers in modern cell biology and molecular self-assembly. (wikipedia.org)
  • From the molecular analysis inside the artificial cells, we have found that the properties and phase transitions of polymers confined to the artificial cell often differ from those in bulk systems. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • We have qualitatively explained these phenomena by considering the length-dependent membrane wettability of polymers. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • 2018 ). Pex5p and Pex7p have been shown to traverse the membrane ( Kerssen et al . (tcdb.org)
  • Operando characterization of heterogeneously catalyzed gas-and multi-phase reactions using nuclear magnetic resonance imaging. (uni-bremen.de)
  • Longitudinal Relaxation (T 1) of Methane/Hydrogen Mixtures for Operando Characterization of Gas-Phase Reactions. (uni-bremen.de)
  • These effects may induce transient membrane permeabilization (sonoporation) on a single cell level, cell death, and disruption of tissue structure, ensuring noninvasive, targeted, and efficient drug/gene delivery and therapy. (hindawi.com)
  • 2023 ). Imaging fluorescence cross-correlation spectroscopy showed that cargo import correlates with transient focusing of GFP-Pex13 and GFP-Pex14 on the peroxisome membrane. (tcdb.org)
  • Though this happens naturally in all cells, we now know that Intrinsically Disordered Proteins (IDPs), which lack an ordered three-dimensional structure, can cause such biological phase separation that is crucial for cellular functions. (researchmatters.in)
  • That is just one of the mysteries we're uncovering right now through our work using computational tools: deriving theoretic principles for these phase-separating systems that can apply pretty broadly to a lot of biological phenomena. (princeton.edu)
  • Separation and Purification Technology, 300, 121792. (uni-bremen.de)
  • Colloidal phase separation as a driving force in cellular organisation appealed strongly to Stephane Leduc, who wrote in his influential 1911 book The Mechanism of Life: "Hence the study of life may be best begun by the study of those physico-chemical phenomena which result from the contact of two different liquids. (wikipedia.org)
  • In this way, a hydrophobic environment was supplied to the membrane proteins to fold and function to interact with the extravesicular environment. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • After being entry, the viral and host membranes can fuse together and then release the positive sense, single-stranded RNA genome of SARS-CoV-2 that directly translates into the structural and nonstructural proteins [ 9 ]. (ijbs.com)
  • When cell biologists largely abandoned colloidal phase separation, it was left to relative outsiders - agricultural scientists and physicists - to make further progress in the study of phase separating biomolecules in cells. (wikipedia.org)
  • The liquids can be binary, ternary, or they may contain even more components, with several in different phases. (balzan.org)
  • The state of non-equilibrium can be driven by flow, mixture, phase transitions, chemical reactions, electrical current, or heat, to name some of the driving factors. (balzan.org)
  • Sintering is driven by surface tension, and causes compacts of coalescing droplets to densify and to become less permeable. (durham.ac.uk)
  • Air Separation Technology focuses on identification of new concepts and technologies for production of oxygen for use in gasification systems. (cookingpot.fr)
  • Many gasification-based energy plants run more efficiently if the oxidant is oxygen rather air, but they rely on conventional cryogenic air separation which is expensive both in terms of capital expenditure and cost to operate. (cookingpot.fr)
  • SARS-CoV-2 genome consists of 14 functional open reading frames (ORFs), including two regions (ORF1a and ORF1b) for 16 non-structural proteins (Nsp1-Nsp16), nine regions for nine putative accessory proteins, and other regions for four structural proteins, spike (S), envelope (E), membrane (M), and nucleocapsid (N) proteins [ 5 - 7 ]. (ijbs.com)
  • Defining the core proteome of the chloroplast envelope membranes. (uni-frankfurt.de)
  • Lipidome and proteome of lipid droplets from the methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris. (uni-frankfurt.de)
  • Scald burn injuries can be caused by liquids, grease, or steam. (medscape.com)
  • It is amazing to find out that proteins like hnRNPA1 have appeared in nature to mediate liquid phase separation under normal physiological conditions," Mittag said. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • However, the roles of phase separation in the regulation of many other signaling pathways await further exploration. (nature.com)
  • Hasan A. Hasan, "Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of the Coalescence Efficiency of Droplets in Simple Shear Flow," Prog. (just.edu.jo)
  • By assessing the functions of membrane proteins with a fluorescence-activated cell sorter, the artificial cell could evolve based on the function of the membrane proteins. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • In the case of two-component polymer solutions, phase separation is induced within the cell size space even under conditions that maintain a uniform phase in bulk. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • If phase separation could happen in a bottle at dinner, why not within a cell? (princeton.edu)
  • Those forces are currently being studied for cell separation for disease diagnoses and drug delivery systems for cancer treatments. (colorado.edu)
  • For example, these forces are being studied currently for cell separation for disease diagnosis or optimizing drug delivery systems for cancer treatments. (colorado.edu)
  • Nanocarriers can pass through blood capillary walls and cell membrane walls to deliver drugs. (hindawi.com)
  • They can pass through blood capillary walls and cell membrane walls to deliver drugs [ 8 ], thereby reducing the side effect and enhancing the curative effect of cancer therapy [ 9 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • Separation Technologies joined the Titan America family in August 2002. (cookingpot.fr)
  • The variety of nanostructures can be produced by controlling the various parameters of sol-gel process such as the type of precursors, solvent type, processing temperature etc. the major advantage of the sol-gel process over other methods is the phase purity of the product as well as the homogeneity in the particle size and particle size distribution. (ukessays.com)
  • The two layers are both liquids, so this separation is known as a phase separation - two liquids, segregating from each other because of their characteristic chemistries. (princeton.edu)
  • Research from the College of Engineering and Applied Science that uses acoustic radiation forces to shape the internal structure of suspended droplets has been published in Nature Communications . (colorado.edu)
  • How did you use radiation forces to manipulate the structure within the droplet? (colorado.edu)
  • The liquid droplet is pushed to a specific direction by the primary radiation force and the attractive force from the secondary radiation creates clusters. (colorado.edu)
  • As for the solid disks inside the droplets, the primary radiation force pushes the disks to the top of the cluster and forces them to be parallel to the substrate, whereas the secondary radiation force pushes it to the edges of the cluster and makes them perpendicular. (colorado.edu)