Publications
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Crystal structures of monomeric BsmI restriction endonuclease reveal coordinated sequential cleavage of two DNA strands
BsmI, a thermophilic Type IIS restriction endonuclease from Bacillus stearothermophilus, presents a unique structural composition, housing two distinct active sites within a single monomer. Recognition of the non-symmetrical 5’-GAATGC-3’ (...)
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Stationary and transient correlations in driven electrolytes
Particle–particle correlation functions in ionic systems control many of their macroscopic properties. In this work, we use stochastic density functional theory to compute these correlations, and then we analyze their long-range behavior. In (...)
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Harnessing DNA computing and nanopore decoding for practical applications: from informatics to microRNA-targeting diagnostics
DNA computing represents a subfield of molecular computing with the potential to become a significant area of next-generation computation due to the high programmability inherent in the sequence-dependent molecular behaviour of DNA. Recent (...)
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Swelling and Evaporation Determine Surface Morphology of Grafted Hydrogel Thin Films
An article resulting from a collaboration between researchers at the gulliver and simm labs at espci, and the loma lab at université de bordeaux has been published in the journal langmuir (22 january 2025). For this collaboration, the (...)
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Algebraic Depletion Interactions in Two-Temperature Mixtures
The phase separation that occurs in two-temperature mixtures, which are driven out of equilibrium at the local scale, has been thoroughly characterized, but much less is known about the depletion interactions that drive it. Using numerical (...)
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The glass transition in molecules, colloids and grains: universality and specificity
We highlight certain key achievements in experimental work on molecular, colloidal and granular glassformers. This short review considers these three classes of experimental systems and focusses largely on the work of the authors and their (...)
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Viscous tweezers: Controlling particles with viscosity
control of particle motion is generally achieved by applying an external field that acts directly on each particle. here, we propose a global way to manipulate the motion of a particle by dynamically changing the properties of the fluid in (...)
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Harnessing DNA computing and nanopore decoding for practical applications: from informatics to microRNA-targeting diagnostics
DNA computing represents a subfield of molecular computing with the potential to become a significant area of next-generation computation due to the high programmability inherent in the sequence-dependent molecular behaviour of DNA. Recent (...)
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Design principles, growth laws, and competition of minimal autocatalysts
The difficulty of designing simple autocatalysts that grow exponentially in the absence of enzymes, external drives or ingenious internal mechanisms severely constrains scenarios for the emergence of evolution by natural selection in chemical (...)
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Tuning collective actuation of active solids by optimizing activity localization
Active solids, more specifically elastic lattices embedded with polar active units, exhibit collective actuation when the elasto-active feedback, generically present in such systems, exceeds some critical value. The dynamics then condensates on (...)