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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2023

Bonded straight and helical flagellar filaments form ultra-low-density glasses.

Sevim Yardimci, Thomas Gibaud, Walter Schwenger, Matthew R Sartucci, Peter D Olmsted, Jeffrey S Urbach, Zvonimir Dogic

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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7 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Sevim YardimciThe Martin Fisher School of Physics, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454.ORCID 0000-0003-1616-7094
Thomas GibaudThe Martin Fisher School of Physics, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454.ORCID 0000-0003-4826-8025
Walter SchwengerThe Martin Fisher School of Physics, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454.
Matthew R SartucciDepartment of Physics Institute for Soft Matter Synthesis and Metrology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057.
Peter D OlmstedDepartment of Physics Institute for Soft Matter Synthesis and Metrology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057.ORCID 0000-0001-6538-9385
Jeffrey S UrbachDepartment of Physics Institute for Soft Matter Synthesis and Metrology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057.
Zvonimir DogicThe Martin Fisher School of Physics, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454.ORCID 0000-0003-0142-1838
Georgetown University · USBrandeis University · USThe Francis Crick Institute · GBUniversité Claude Bernard Lyon 1 · FRUniversity of California, Santa Barbara · US

Funding

National Institute for Standards and Technology &0AND14H214National Science Foundation (NSF) NSF-DMR-1905384
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We study how the three-dimensional shape of rigid filaments determines the microscopic dynamics and macroscopic rheology of entangled semidilute Brownian suspensions. To control the filament shape we use bacterial flagella, which are microns-long helical or straight filaments assembled from flagellin monomers. We compare the dynamics of straight rods, helical filaments, and shape-diblock copolymers composed of seamlessly joined straight and helical segments. Caged by their neighbors, straight rods preferentially diffuse along their long axis, but exhibit significantly suppressed rotational diffusion. Entangled helical filaments escape their confining tube by corkscrewing through the dense obstacles created by other filaments. By comparison, the adjoining segments of the rod-helix shape-diblocks suppress both the translation and the corkscrewing dynamics. Consequently, the shape-diblock filaments become permanently jammed at exceedingly low densities. We also measure the rheological properties of semidilute suspensions and relate their mechanical properties to the microscopic dynamics of constituent filaments. In particular, rheology shows that an entangled suspension of shape rod-helix copolymers forms a low-density glass whose elastic modulus can be estimated by accounting for how shear deformations reduce the entropic degrees of freedom of constrained filaments. Our results demonstrate that the three-dimensional shape of rigid filaments can be used to design rheological properties of semidilute fibrous suspensions.

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dynamicsglass transitionreptationrheologysemidilute suspensions

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