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Asymmetric Model Membranes: Developing Better Plasma Membrane Mimetics
Transbilayer asymmetry is a ubiquitous yet poorly understood aspect of biological membranes. Increasing evidence suggests that the lipid compositional asymmetry of plasma membranes (PMs) not only confines specific lipids to the exoplasmic leaflet (in the case of sphingomyelin) or cytoplasmic leaflet (in the case of aminophospholipids), but also results in unique membrane properties that are… Continue Reading →
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Real-Time Insight into the Cyclic-Deformation Mechanism of High-Entropy Alloys
Fatigue failures in engineering structures can cause catastrophic accidents without any obvious warning. Understanding cyclic-deformation and fatigue failure mechanisms is critical for designing fatigue-resistant novel structure materials. Recently, an intriguing new class of metallic structural materials – High-Entropy Alloys (HEAs), shows great potential in the engineering field. However, the fundamental understanding of the fatigue behavior… Continue Reading →
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Liquid State Physics
The density of a liquid is comparable to that of a solid. As you now Ice is lighter than water; otherwise the Titanic would not have gone down. Liquid is a condensed matter in which motions of atoms are highly correlated. It is challenging to figure out the atomic dynamics in liquid, and this held… Continue Reading →