Scientific Publications

The geometry of decision-making

Authors: Sridhar V. H., Li L., Gorbonos D., Nagy M., Schell B. R., Sorochkin T., Gov N. S. & Couzin I. D. (2021), BioRxiv.

Interactions Between Bilayers of Phospholipids Extracted from Human Osteoarthritic Synovial Fluid

Authors: Cao Y., Kampf N., Kosinska M. K., Steinmeyer J. & Klein J. (2021), Biotribology. 25, 100157

Toward Compositional Contrast by Cryo-STEM

Authors: Elbaum M., Seifer S., Houben L., Wolf S. G. & Rez P. (2021), Accounts of Chemical Research.

Boundary-Free Ribosome Compartmentalization by Gene Expression on a Surface

Authors: Levy M., Falkovich R., Vonshak O., Bracha D., Tayar A. M., Shimizu Y., Daube S. S. & Bar-Ziv R. H. (2021), ACS Synthetic Biology. 10, 3, p. 609-619

The geometry of neuronal representations during rule learning reveals complementary roles of cingulate cortex and putamen

Authors: Cohen Y., Schneidman E. & Paz R. (2021), Neuron. 109, 5, p. 839-851.e9

20S proteasomes secreted by the malaria parasite promote its growth

Authors: Dekel E., Yaffe D., Rosenhek-Goldian I., Ben-Nissan G., Ofir-Birin Y., Morandi M. I., Ziv T., Sisquella X., Pimentel M. A., Nebl T., Kapp E., Ohana Daniel Y., Karam P. A., Alfandari D., Rotkopf R., Malihi S., Temin T. B., Mullick D., Revach O. Y., Rudik A., Gov N. S., Azuri I., Porat Z., Bergamaschi G., Sorkin R., Wuite G. J., Avinoam O., Carvalho T. G., Cohen S. R., Sharon M. & Regev-Rudzki N. (2021), Nature Communications. 12, 1, 1172

Modelling cellular spreading and emergence of motility in the presence of curved membrane proteins and active cytoskeleton forces

Authors: Sadhu R. K., Penič S., Iglič A. & Gov N. S. (2021), European Physical Journal Plus. 136, 5, p. -, 495

Does Electric Friction Matter in Living Cells?

Authors: Makarov D. & Hofmann H. (2021), The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 125, 23, p. 6144-6153

Robust, coherent and synchronized circadian clock-controlled oscillations along Anabaena filaments

Authors: Arbel-Goren R., Buonfiglio V., Di Patti F., Camargo S., Zhitnitsky A., Valladares A., Flores E., Herrero A., Fanelli D. & Stavans J. (2021), eLife. 10, e64348

Recent Progress in Cartilage Lubrication

Authors: Lin W. & Klein J. (2021), Advanced materials (Weinheim). e2005513

Single-Molecule FRET of Membrane Transport Proteins

Authors: Bartels K., Lasitza-Male T., Hofmann H. & Löw C. (2021), Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology.

Sequential Decision-Making in Ants and Implications to the Evidence Accumulation Decision Model

Authors: Ayalon O., Sternklar Y., Fonio E., Korman A., Gov N. S. & Feinerman O. (2021), Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics. 7

The Fracture of Highly Deformable Soft Materials: A Tale of Two Length Scales

Authors: Long R., Hui C. Y., Gong J. P. & Bouchbinder E. (2021), Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics. 12, p. 71-94

Malaria Pigment Crystals, the Achilles Heel of the Malaria Parasite

Authors: Kapishnikov S., Hempelmann E., Elbaum M., Als-Nielsen J. & Leiserowitz L. (2021), ChemMedChem.

Mesoscale phase separation of chromatin in the nucleus

Authors: Bajpai G., Amiad Pavlov D., Lorber D., Volk T. & Safran S. (2021), eLife. 10, e63976

Local actin dynamics couple speed and persistence in a cellular Potts model of cell migration

Authors: Wortel I. M., Niculescu I., Kolijn P. M., Gov N. S., de Boer R. J. & Textor J. (2021), Biophysical Journal. 120, 13, p. 2609-2622

Physical theory of biological noise buffering by multicomponent phase separation

Authors: Deviri D. & Safran S. A. (2021), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS. 118, 25, e210009911

Elastic moduli fluctuations predict wave attenuation rates in glasses

Authors: Kapteijns G., Richard D., Bouchbinder E. & Lerner E. (2021), Journal of Chemical Physics. 154, 8, 081101

Construction of exact minimal parking garages: nonlinear helical motifs in optimally packed lamellar structures

Authors: da Silva L. C. B. & Efrati E. (2021), Proceedings of the Royal Society. A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences. 477, 2246, 20200891

Chemokine-biased robust self-organizing polarization of migrating cells in vivo

Authors: Olguin-Olguin A., Aalto A., Maugis B., Boquet-Pujadas A., Hoffmann D., Ermlich L., Betz T., Gov N. S., Reichman-Fried M. & Raz E. (2021), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 118, 7, 2018480118

Moving frames and compatibility conditions for three-dimensional director fields

Authors: da Silva L. C. B. & Efrati E. (2021), New Journal of Physics. 23, 6, 063016

Modulating Interfacial Energy Dissipation via Potential-Controlled Ion Trapping

Authors: Tivony R., Zhang Y. & Klein J. (2021), The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 125, 6, p. 3616-3622

Theory of unconventional singularities of frictional shear cracks

Authors: Brener E. A. & Bouchbinder E. (2021), Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 153, 104466

Hsp40s play complementary roles in the prevention of tau amyloid formation

Authors: Irwin R., Faust O., Petrovic I., Wolf S. G., Hofmann H. & Rosenzweig R. (2021), eLife. 10, e69601

Allostery through DNA drives phenotype switching

Authors: Rosenblum G., Elad N., Rozenberg H., Wiggers F., Jungwirth J. & Hofmann H. (2021), Nature Communications. 12, 1, 2967

Impaired cell-cell communication in the multicellular cyanobacterium Anabaena affects carbon uptake, photosynthesis, and the cell wall

Authors: Camargo S., Leshkowitz D., Dassa B., Mariscal V., Flores E., Stavans J. & Arbel-Goren R. (2021), iScience. 24, 1, 101977

Diffusion of a disordered protein on its folded ligand

Authors: Wiggers F., Wohl S., Dubovetskyi A., Rosenblum G., Zheng W. & Hofmann H. (2021), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.. 118, 37, e210669011

Confined Polymers in a Poor Solvent: The Role of Bonding to the Surface: The Role of Bonding to the Surface

Authors: Adame Arana O. & Safran S. (2021), Macromolecules.

Thermal inactivation scaling applied for SARS-CoV-2

Authors: Seifer S. & Elbaum M. (2021), Biophysical Journal. 120, 6, p. 1054-1059

Automatic detection of prosodic boundaries in spontaneous speech

Authors: Biron T., Baum D., Freche D., Matalon N., Ehrmann N., Weinreb E., Biron D. & Moses E. (2021), PLoS ONE. 16, 5, e0250969

Direct measurement of surface forces: Recent advances and insights

Authors: Lin W. & Klein J. (2021), Applied physics reviews.. 8, 031316

Live imaging of chromatin distribution reveals novel principles of nuclear architecture and chromatin compartmentalization

Authors: Amiad-Pavlov D., Lorber D., Bajpai G., Reuveny A., Roncato F., Alon R., Safran S. & Volk T. (2021), Science advances. 7, 23, eabf6251

Neuronal circuits overcome imbalance in excitation and inhibition by adjusting connection numbers

Authors: Sukenik N., Vinogradov O., Weinreb E., Segal M., Levina A. & Moses E. (2021), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS. 118, 12, e201845911

Dual‐fluorescence imaging and automated trophallaxis detection for studying multi‐nutrient regulation in superorganisms

Authors: Baltiansky L., Sarafian‐Tamam E., Greenwald E. & Feinerman O. (2021), Methods in Ecology and Evolution.

Low-frequency vibrational spectrum of mean-field disordered systems

Authors: Bouchbinder E., Lerner E., Rainone C., Urbani P. & Zamponi F. (2021), Physical review. B. 103, 17, 174202

Unconventional singularities and energy balance in frictional rupture

Authors: Brener E. A. & Bouchbinder E. (2021), Nature Communications. 12, 2585

Animal Behavior: Drosophila melanogaster Goes Social

Authors: Feinerman O. (2021), Current Biology. 31, 3, p. R138-R140

Quantification and demonstration of the collective constriction-by-ratchet mechanism in the dynamin molecular motor

Authors: Ganichkin O. M., Vancraenenbroeck R., Rosenblum G., Hofmann H., Mikhailov A. S., Daumke O. & Noel J. K. (2021), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS. 118, 28, e210114411

The pursuit of stability in halide perovskites: the monovalent cation and the key for surface and bulk self-healing

Authors: Ceratti D. R., Cohen A. V., Tenne R., Rakita Y., Snarski L., Jasti N. P., Cremonesi L., Cohen R., Weitman M., Rosenhek-Goldian I., Kaplan-Ashiri I., Bendikov T., Kalchenko V., Elbaum M., Potenza M. A. C., Kronik L., Hodes G. & Cahen D. (2021), Materials Horizons. 8, 5, p. 1570-1586

Variability of dynamic patterns of cortical excitability in schizophrenia: A test-retest TMS-EEG study

Authors: Naim-Feil J., Peled A., Freche D., Hess S., Grinshpoon A., Levit-Binnun N. & Moses E. (2020), BioRxiv.

Social interactions drive efficient foraging and income equality in groups of fish

Authors: Harpaz R. & Schneidman E. (2020), eLife. 9, 56196

Learning probabilistic neural representations with randomly connected circuits

Authors: Maoz O., Tkacčik G., Esteki M. S., Kiani R. & Schneidman E. (2020), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 117, 40, p. 25066-25073

The emergence of crack-like behavior of frictional rupture: Edge singularity and energy balance

Authors: Barras F., Aldam M., Roch T., Brener E. A., Bouchbinder E. & Molinari J. F. (2020), Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 531, 115978

Designer protein assemblies with tunable phase diagrams in living cells

Authors: Heidenreich M., Georgeson J. M., Locatelli E., Rovigatti L., Nandi S. K., Steinberg A., Nadav Y., Shimoni E., Safran S. A., Doye J. P. K. & Levy E. D. (2020), Nature Chemical Biology. 16, 9, p. 939-945

Pinching a glass reveals key properties of its soft spots

Authors: Rainone C., Bouchbinder E. & Lerner E. (2020), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 117, 10, p. 5228-5234

Rotational field TMS: Comparison with conventional TMS based on motor evoked potentials and thresholds in the hand and leg motor cortices

Authors: Roth Y., Pell G. S., Barnea-Ygael N., Ankry M., Hadad Y., Eisen A., Burnishev Y., Tendler A., Moses E. & Zangen A. (2020), Brain Stimulation. 13, 3, p. 900-907

Active diffusion in oocytes nonspecifically centers large objects during prophase I and meiosis I

Authors: Colin A., Letort G., Razin N., Almonacid M., Ahmed W., Betz T., Terret M., Gov N. S., Voituriez R., Gueroui Z. & Verlhac M. (2020), Journal of Cell Biology. 219, 3, e201908195

Why a Large-Scale Mode Can Be Essential for Understanding Intracellular Actin Waves

Authors: Beta C., Gov N. S. & Yochelis A. (2020), Cells. 9, 6, 1533

Autonomous synthesis and assembly of a ribosomal subunit on a chip

Authors: Levy M., Falkovich R., Daube S. S. & Bar-Ziv R. H. (2020), Science Advances. 6, 16, eaaz6020

Long-Time Phase Correlations Reveal Regulation of Beating Cardiomyocytes

Authors: Cohen O., Nitsan I., Tzlil S. & Safran S. A. (2020), Physical Review Letters. 125, 25, 258101

From deterministic to fuzzy decision-making in artificial cells

Authors: Greiss F., Daube S. S., Noireaux V. & Bar-Ziv R. (2020), Nature Communications. 11, 5648

Active volume regulation in adhered cells

Authors: Adar R. M. & Safran S. A. (2020), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 117, 11, p. 5604-5609

Normal and shear forces between boundary sphingomyelin layers under aqueous conditions

Authors: Cao Y., Kampf N., Lin W. & Klein J. (2020), Soft Matter. 16, 16, p. 3973-3980

Extracting the properties of quasilocalized modes in computer glasses: Long-range continuum fields, contour integrals, and boundary effects

Authors: Moriel A., Lubomirsky Y., Lerner E. & Bouchbinder E. (2020), Physical Review E. 102, 3, 033008

Phase-amplitude markers of synchrony and noise: A resting-state and TMS-EEG study of schizophrenia

Authors: Freche D., Naim-Feil J., Hess S., Peled A., Grinshpoon A., Moses E. & Levit-Binnun N. (2020), Cerebral Cortex Communications. tgaa013

Programming multi-protein assembly by gene-brush patterns and two-dimensional compartment geometry

Authors: Vonshak O., Divon Y., Foerste S., Garenne D., Noireaux V., Lipowsky R., Rudorf S., Daube S. S. & Bar-Ziv R. H. (2020), Nature Nanotechnology. 15, 9, p. 783-791

Active Trap Model

Authors: Woillez E., Kafri Y. & Gov N. S. (2020), Physical Review Letters. 124, 11, 118002

Cardiomyocyte Calcium Ion Oscillations-Lessons From Physics

Authors: Cohen O. & Safran S. A. (2020), Frontiers in Physiology. 11, 164

Collective Learning by Ensembles of Altruistic Diversifying Neural Networks

Authors: Brazowski B. & Schneidman E. (2020), arXiv.

Lipid-Bilayer Assemblies on Polymer-Bearing Surfaces: The Nature of the Slip Plane in Asymmetric Boundary Lubrication

Authors: Angayarkanni S. A., Kampf N. & Klein J. (2020), Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids. 36, 51, p. 15583-15591

Designer Nanoparticles as Robust Superlubrication Vectors

Authors: Lin W., Kampf N. & Klein J. (2020), ACS Nano. 14, 6, p. 7008–7017

Cellular contractile forces are nonmechanosensitive

Authors: Feld L., Kellerman L., Mukherjee A., Livne A., Bouchbinder E. & Wolfenson H. (2020), Science Advances. 6, 17, eaaz6997

Crystals of Benzamide, the First Polymorphous Molecular Compound, Are Helicoidal

Authors: Shtukenberg A. G., Drori R., Sturm E. V., Vidavsky N., Haddad A., Zheng J., Estroff L. A., Weissman H., Wolf S. G., Shimoni E., Li C., Fellah N., Efrati E. & Kahr B. (2020), Angewandte Chemie - International Edition. 34, p. 14593-14601

Ant collective cognition allows for efficient navigation through disordered environments

Authors: Gelblum A., Fonio E., Rodeh Y., Korman A. & Feinerman O. (2020), eLife. 9, 55195

Statistical mechanics of local force dipole responses in computer glasses

Authors: Rainone C., Bouchbinder E. & Lerner E. (2020), Journal of Chemical Physics. 152, 19, 194504

Predicting delayed instabilities in viscoelastic solids

Authors: Urbach E. Y. & Efrati E. (2020), Science Advances. 6, 36, eabb2948

Why Are Some Crystals Straight?

Authors: Li C., Shtukenberg A. G., Vogt-Maranto L., Efrati E., Raiteri P., Gale J. D., Rohl A. L. & Kahr B. (2020), Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 124, 28, p. 15616-15624

Three-dimensional deconvolution processing for STEM cryotomography

Authors: Waugh B., Wolf S. G., Fass D., Branlund E., Kam Z., Sedat J. W. & Elbaum M. (2020), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 117, 44, p. 27374-27380

Regular regimes of the harmonic three-mass system

Authors: Katz O. S. & Efrati E. (2020), Physical Review E. 101, 3, 032211

Tissue topography steers migrating Drosophila border cells

Authors: Dai W., Guo X., Cao Y., Mondo J. A., Campanale J. P., Montell B. J., Burrous H., Streichan S., Gov N., Rappel W. J. & Montell D. J. (2020), Science (New York, N.Y.). 370, 6519, p. 987-990

Equilibrium size distribution and phase separation of multivalent, molecular assemblies in dilute solution

Authors: Deviri D. & Safran S. A. (2020), Soft Matter. 16, 23, p. 5458-5469

Excitable solitons: Annihilation, crossover, and nucleation of pulses in mass-conserving activator-inhibitor media

Authors: Yochelis A., Beta C. & Gov N. S. (2020), Physical Review E. 101, 2, 022213

Pair formation in insect swarms driven by adaptive long-range interactions

Authors: Gorbonos D., Puckett J. G., van der Vaart K., Sinhuber M., Ouellette N. T. & Gov N. S. (2020), Journal of the Royal Society, Interface. 17, 171, 20200367

Effects of hyaluronan molecular weight on the lubrication of cartilage-emulating boundary-layers

Authors: Liu Z., Lin W., Fan Y., Kampf N., Wang Y. & Klein J. (2020), Biomacromolecules. 21, 10, p. 4345-4354

The Role of Hyaluronic Acid in Cartilage Boundary Lubrication

Authors: Lin W., Liu Z., Kampf N. & Klein J. (2020), Cells. 9, 7, 1606

Membrane Chemistry Tunes the Structure of a Peptide Transporter

Authors: Lasitza-Male T., Bartels K., Jungwirth J., Wiggers F., Rosenblum G., Hofmann H. & Loew C. (2020), Angewandte Chemie - International Edition. 43, p. 19121-19128

Cell-Substrate Patterns Driven by Curvature-Sensitive Actin Polymerization: Waves and Podosomes

Authors: Naoz M. & Gov N. S. (2020), Cells. 9, 3, 782

Universality of the Nonphononic Vibrational Spectrum across Different Classes of Computer Glasses

Authors: Richard D., Gonzalez-Lopez K., Kapteijns G., Pater R., Vaknin T., Bouchbinder E. & Lerner E. (2020), Physical Review Letters. 125, 8, 085502

The interactive effects of test-retest and methylphenidate administration on cognitive performance in youth with ADHD: A double-blind placebo-controlled crossover study

Authors: Horowitz I., Avirame K., Naim-Feil J., Rubinson M., Moses E., Gothelf D. & Levit-Binnun N. (2020), Psychiatry Research. 291, 113056

Working Together: Integrating Computational Modeling Approaches to Investigate Complex Phenomena

Authors: Bielik T., Fonio E., Feinerman O., Duncan R. G. & Levy S. T. (2020), Journal of Science Education and Technology. 1, p. 40-57

Cartilage-inspired, lipid-based boundary-lubricated hydrogels

Authors: Lin W., Kluzek M., Iuster N., Shimoni E., Kampf N., Goldberg R. & Klein J. (2020), Science. 370, 6514, p. 335-338

Shifting the learning gears: Redesigning a project-based course on soft matter through the perspective of constructionism

Authors: Langbeheim E., Abrashkin A., Steiner A., Edri H., Safran S. & Yerushalmi E. (2020), Physical Review Physics Education Research. 16, 2, 020147

Learning the architectural features that predict functional similarity of neural networks

Authors: Haber A. & Schneidman E. (2020), BioRxiv. 57752

Tracking Conformational Changes in Calmodulin in vitro, in Cell Extract, and in Cells by Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Distance Measurements

Authors: Dalaloyan A., Martorana A., Barak Y., Gataulin D., Reuveny E., Howe A., Elbaum M., Albeck S., Unger T., Frydman V., Abdelkader E. H., Otting G. & Goldfarb D. (2019), ChemPhysChem. 20, 14, p. 1860-1868

Polymer effects modulate binding affinities in disordered proteins

Authors: Vancraenenbroeck R., Harel Y. S., Zheng W. & Hofmann H. (2019), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 116, 39, p. 19506-19512

Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Frictional Systems: The Interplay of Interfacial Friction and Bulk Elasticity

Authors: Bar-Sinai Y., Aldam M., Spatschek R., Brener E. A. & Bouchbinder E. (2019), Lubricants. 7, 10, 91

Cellular Blebs and Membrane Invaginations Are Coupled through Membrane Tension Buffering

Authors: Lavi I., Goudarzi M., Raz E., Gov N. S., Voituriez R. & Sens P. (2019), Biophysical Journal. 117, 8, p. 1485-1495

Lipid-hyaluronan synergy strongly reduces intrasynovial tissue boundary friction

Authors: Lin W., Mashiah R., Seror J., Kadar A., Dolkart O., Pritsch T., Goldberg R. & Klein J. (2019), Acta Biomaterialia. 83, p. 314-321

Extending the Boundaries of High-School Physics: Introducing Computational Modeling of Complex Systems

Authors: Langbeheim E., Edri H., Schulmann N., Safran S. A. & Yerushalmi E. (2019),

Generalization of Object Localization From Whiskers to Other Body Parts in Freely Moving Rats

Authors: Deutsch D., Schneidman E. & Ahissar E. (2019), Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience. 13, 64

Comparing rotational-field-dTMS to unidirectional-dTMS in healthy volunteers

Authors: Roth Y., Pell G., Ankry M., Hadad Y., Eisen A., Burnishev Y., Tendler A., Moses E. & Zangen A. (2019),

Strongly correlated spatiotemporal encoding and simple decoding in the prefrontal cortex

Authors: Karpas E., Maoz O., Kiani R. & Schneidman E. (2019), BioRxiv.

Colony entropy-Allocation of goods in ant colonies

Authors: Greenwald E., Eckmann J. & Feinerman O. (2019), PLoS Computational Biology. 15, 8, 1006925

Signatures of motor susceptibility to forces in the dynamics of a tracer particle in an active gel

Authors: Razin N., Voituriez R. & Gov N. S. (2019), Physical Review E. 99, 2, 022419

Twist renormalization in molecular crystals driven by geometric frustration

Authors: Haddad A., Aharoni H., Sharon E., Shtukenberg A. G., Kahr B. & Efrati E. (2019), Soft Matter. 15, 1, p. 116-126

Emergence of Cracklike Behavior of Frictional Rupture: The Origin of Stress Drops

Authors: Barras F., Aldam M., Roch T., Brener E. A., Bouchbinder E. & Molinari J. (2019), Physical Review X. 9, 4, 041043

Inflating to shape

Authors: Efrati E. (2019),

Theoretical study of vesicle shapes driven by coupling curved proteins and active cytoskeletal forces

Authors: Fosnaric M., Penic S., Iglic A., Kralj-Iglic V., Drab M. & Gov N. S. (2019), Soft Matter. 15, 26, p. 5319-5330

Self-Driven Fractional Rotational Diffusion of the Harmonic Three-Mass System

Authors: Katz O. S. & Efrati E. (2019), Physical Review Letters. 122, 2, 024102

Effects of methylphenidate on the ERP amplitude in youth with ADHD: A double-blind placebo-controlled cross-over EEG study

Authors: Rubinson M., Horowitz I., Naim-Feil J., Gothelf D., Levit-Binnun N. & Moses E. (2019), PLoS ONE. 14, 5, e0217383

Physics of Spontaneous Calcium Oscillations in Cardiac Cells and Their Entrainment

Authors: Cohen O. & Safran S. A. (2019), Physical Review Letters. 122, 19, 198101

Registry Kinetics of Myosin Motor Stacks Driven by Mechanical Force-Induced Actin Turnover

Authors: Dasbiswas K., Hu S., Bershadsky A. D. & Safran S. A. (2019), Biophysical Journal. 117, 5, p. 856-866

Curved Geometries from Planar Director Fields: Solving the Two-Dimensional Inverse Problem

Authors: Griniasty I., Aharoni H. & Efrati E. (2019), Physical Review Letters. 123, 12, 127801

Screening length for finite-size ions in concentrated electrolytes

Authors: Adar R. M., Safran S. A., Diamant H. & Andelman D. (2019), Physical Review E. 100, 4, 042615

Cell cluster migration: Connecting experiments with physical models

Authors: Gopinathan A. & Gov N. S. (2019), SEMINARS IN CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY. 93, p. 77-86

Surface Interactions between Boundary Layers of Poly(ethylene oxide)-Liposome Complexes: Lubrication, Bridging, and Selective Ligation

Authors: Angayarkanni S. A., Kampf N. & Klein J. (2019), Langmuir. 35, 48, p. 15469-15480

Electroencephalography Functional Networks Reveal Global Effects of Methylphenidate in Youth with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

Authors: Rubinson M., Horowitz I., Naim-Feil J., Gothelf D., Moses E. & Levit-Binnun N. (2019), Brain Connectivity. 9, 5, p. 437-450

Wave attenuation in glasses: Rayleigh and generalized-Rayleigh scattering scaling

Authors: Moriel A., Kapteijns G., Rainone C., Zylberg J., Lerner E. & Bouchbinder E. (2019), Journal of Chemical Physics. 151, 10, 104503

Publisher Correction: Charging dynamics of an individual nanopore (Nature Communications, (2018), 9, 1, (4203))

Authors: Tivony R., Safran S., Pincus P., Silbert G. & Klein J. (2019),

Control of surface forces through hydrated boundary layers

Authors: Lin W. & Klein J. (2019), Current Opinion In Colloid & Interface Science. 44, p. 94-106

Single Molecule Imaging of T-DNA Intermediates Following Agrobacterium tumefaciens Infection in Nicotiana benthamiana

Authors: Pereman I., Melamed-Bessudo C., Dahan-Meir T., Herz E., Elbaum M. & Levy A. A. (2019), International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 20, 24, 6209

Scaling laws indicate distinct nucleation mechanisms of holes in the nuclear lamina

Authors: Deviri D., Pfeifer C. R., Dooling L. J., Ivanovska I. L., Discher D. E. & Safran S. A. (2019), Nature Physics. 15, 8, p. 823-829

Poly-phosphocholinated Liposomes Form Stable Superlubrication Vectors

Authors: Lin W., Kampf N., Goldberg R., Driver M. J. & Klein J. (2019), Langmuir. 35, 18, p. 6048-6054

Cell confinement reveals a branched-actin independent circuit for neutrophil polarity

Authors: Graziano B. R., Town J. P., Sitarska E., Nagy T. L., Fosnaric M., Penic S., Iglic A., Kralj-Iglic V., Gov N. S., Diz-Munoz A. & Weiner O. D. (2019), PLoS Biology. 17, 10, e3000457

Dynamics of social representation in the mouse prefrontal cortex

Authors: Levy D. R., Tamir T., Kaufman M., Parabucki A., Weissbrod A., Schneidman E. & Yizhar O. (2019), Nature Neuroscience. 22, 12, p. 2013-2022

Anisotropic structural predictor in glassy materials

Authors: Schwartzman-Nowik Z., Lerner E. & Bouchbinder E. (2019), Physical Review E. 99, 6, 060601(R)

Ants Use Multiple Spatial Memories and Chemical Pointers to Navigate Their Nest

Authors: Heyman Y., Vilk Y. & Feinerman O. (2019), iScience. 14, p. 264-176

Boundary Lubrication, Hemifusion, and Self-Healing of Binary Saturated and Monounsaturated Phosphatidylcholine Mixtures

Authors: Cao Y., Kampf N. & Klein J. (2019), Langmuir. 35, 48, p. 15459-15468

Fundamental helical geometry consolidates the plant photosynthetic membrane

Authors: Bussi Y., Shimoni E., Weiner A., Kapon R., Charuvi D., Nevo R., Efrati E. & Reich Z. (2019), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 116, 44, p. 22366-22375

Origins of the long-ranged attraction between surfaces that were rendered hydrophobic by surfactant layers

Authors: Klein J. (2019), Advances in Colloid and Interface Science. 270, p. 261-262

CryoSTEM tomography in biology

Authors: Wolf S. G. & Elbaum M. (2019),

Ultrasonic neuromodulation of pharmacologically isolated cultured neurons using a single extremely short pulse

Authors: Weinreb E., Paz R. & Moses E. (2019),

Active Mechanics Reveal Molecular-Scale Force Kinetics in Living Oocytes

Authors: Ahmed W. W., Fodor E., Almonacid M., Bussonnier M., Verlhac M., Gov N., Visco P., van Wijland F. & Betz T. (2018), Biophysical Journal. 114, 7, p. 1667-1679

Origin of Internal Friction in Disordered Proteins Depends on Solvent Quality

Authors: Zheng W., Hofmann H., Schuler B. & Best R. B. (2018), Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 122, 49, p. 11478-11487

Bi-stability in cooperative transport by ants in the presence of obstacles

Authors: Ron J. E., Pinkoviezky I., Fonio E., Feinerman O. & Gov N. S. (2018), PLoS Computational Biology. 14, 5, e1006068

Lubrication of articular cartilage

Authors: Jahn S. & Klein J. (2018), Physics Today. 71, 4, p. 48-54

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Cross-Linking Highly Lubricious Phosphocholinated Polymer Brushes: Effect on Surface Interactions and Frictional Behavior

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Modeling and analysis of collective cell migration in an in vivo three-dimensional environment

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A Trimeric Surfactant: Surface Micelles, Hydration-Lubrication, and Formation of a Stable, Charged Hydrophobic Monolayer

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Single-Molecule FRET Spectroscopy and the Polymer Physics of Unfolded and Intrinsically Disordered Proteins.

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Lubrication of Articular Cartilage

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Resolving new ultrastructural features of cytokinetic abscission with soft-X-ray cryo-tomography

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Social complexity, diet, and brain evolution: modeling the effects of colony size, worker size, brain size, and foraging behavior on colony fitness in ants

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Linear Response Theory for Hard and Soft Glassy Materials

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Neural activity at the human olfactory epithelium reflects olfactory perception

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Synergy from Silence in a Combinatorial Neural Code

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Normal and frictional interactions of purified human statherin adsorbed on molecularly-smooth solid substrata

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