Jan Kierfeld
TU Dortmund
Professor, Physics
Germany
My co-authors include
Dr Dominic Vella
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My Publications
Pendant drop tensiometry: A machine learning approach
The Journal of Chemical Physics
September 2020
Chaining of hard disks in nematic needles: particle-based simulation of colloidal inter...
Scientific Reports
July 2020
Bistability and oscillations in cooperative microtubule and kinetochore dynamics in the...
New Journal of Physics
May 2020
Snapping elastic disks as microswimmers: swimming at low Reynolds numbers by shape hyst...
Soft Matter
January 2020
Profilin and formin constitute a pacemaker system for robust actin filament growth
eLife
October 2019
Shallow shell theory of the buckling energy barrier: From the Pogorelov state to soften...
February 2019
Strong Deformation of Ferrofluid-Filled Elastic Alginate Capsules in Inhomogenous Magne...
Langmuir
October 2018
Buckling of thermally fluctuating spherical shells: Parameter renormalization and therm...
May 2018
Spheroidal and conical shapes of ferrofluid-filled capsules in magnetic fields
Physical Review Fluids
April 2018
Pendant capsule elastometry
Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
March 2018
Elastic capsules at liquid–liquid interfaces
Soft Matter
January 2018
Adsorption of finite semiflexible polymers and their loop and tail distributions
The Journal of Chemical Physics
July 2017
Event-chain Monte Carlo algorithms for three- and many-particle interactions
EPL (Europhysics Letters)
February 2017
Stationary shapes of deformable particles moving at low Reynolds numbers
The European Physical Journal Special Topics
November 2016
Microcapsule Buckling Triggered by Compression-Induced Interfacial Phase Change
Langmuir
October 2016
Erratum: Shapes of sedimenting soft elastic capsules in a viscous fluid [Phys. Rev. E92...
Physical Review E
December 2015
Shapes of sedimenting soft elastic capsules in a viscous fluid
Physical Review E
September 2015
Monte Carlo simulation of dense polymer melts using event chain algorithms
The Journal of Chemical Physics
July 2015
Elasticity of Interfacial Rafts of Hard Particles with Soft Shells
Langmuir
May 2015
Parallelized event chain algorithm for dense hard sphere and polymer systems
Journal of Computational Physics
January 2015
Feedback Mechanism for Microtubule Length Regulation by Stathmin Gradients
Biophysical Journal
December 2014
Depinning of stiff directed lines in random media
Physical Review E
July 2014
The secondary buckling transition: Wrinkling of buckled spherical shells
The European Physical Journal E
July 2014
Effects of microtubule mechanics on hydrolysis and catastrophes
Physical Biology
June 2014
Secondary polygonal instability of buckled spherical shells
EPL (Europhysics Letters)
April 2014
Wrinkling of Random and Regular Semiflexible Polymer Networks
Physical Review Letters
March 2014
Osmotic buckling of spherical capsules
Soft Matter
January 2014
Elastometry of Deflated Capsules: Elastic Moduli from Shape and Wrinkle Analysis
Langmuir
October 2013
Controlling adsorption of semiflexible polymers on planar and curved substrates
The Journal of Chemical Physics
July 2013
Stiff directed lines in random media
Physical Review E
July 2013
Bifurcation of Velocity Distributions in Cooperative Transport of Filaments by Fast and...
Biophysical Journal
February 2013
Cooperative dynamics of microtubule ensembles: Polymerization forces and rescue-induced...
Physical Review E
January 2013
Localization transition of stiff directed lines in random media
Physical Review E
December 2012
Dynamics and length distribution of microtubules under force and confinement
Physical Review E
October 2012
Critical Motor Number for Fractional Steps of Cytoskeletal Filaments in Gliding Assays
PLoS ONE
August 2012
Buckling of spherical capsules
Physical Review E
October 2011
Stall force of polymerizing microtubules and filament bundles
EPL (Europhysics Letters)
January 2011
Coupling of actin hydrolysis and polymerization: Reduced description with two nucleotid...
EPL (Europhysics Letters)
February 2010
Semiflexible polymer rings on topographically and chemically structured surfaces
Soft Matter
January 2010
Modelling semiflexible polymers: shape analysis, buckling instabilities, and force gene...
Soft Matter
January 2010
Morphological Transitions of Liquid Droplets on Circular Surface Domains
Langmuir
December 2009
Actin Polymerization and Depolymerization Coupled to Cooperative Hydrolysis
Physical Review Letters
July 2009
Zipping mechanism for force generation by growing filament bundles
EPL (Europhysics Letters)
June 2009
Crack propagation, arrest and statistics in heterogeneous materials
Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment
April 2008
Active dynamics of filaments in motility assays
The European Physical Journal Special Topics
April 2008
Characterization of single semiflexible filaments under geometric constraints
The European Physical Journal E
April 2008
Semiflexible Polymers and Filaments: From Variational Problems to Fluctuations
January 2008
Stretching of buckled filaments by thermal fluctuations
Physical Review E
December 2007
FLUCTUATIONS OF SINGLE CONFINED ACTIN FILAMENTS
Biophysical Reviews and Letters
April 2007
Line Tension Effects for Liquid Droplets on Circular Surface Domains
Langmuir
December 2006
Buckling, Bundling, and Pattern Formation: From Semi-Flexible Polymers to Assemblies of...
Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience
December 2006
Persistence length of semiflexible polymers and bending rigidity renormalization
EPL (Europhysics Letters)
December 2006
Buckling, Bundling, and Pattern Formation: From Semi-Flexible Polymers to Assemblies of...
Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience
December 2006
FILAMENT ORDERING AND CLUSTERING BY MOLECULAR MOTORS IN MOTILITY ASSAYS
Biophysical Reviews and Letters
October 2006
Force-Induced Desorption and Unzipping of Semiflexible Polymers
Physical Review Letters
August 2006
Enhanced Ordering of Interacting Filaments by Molecular Motors
Physical Review Letters
June 2006
Slow Crack Propagation in Heterogeneous Materials
Physical Review Letters
May 2006
Wetting, budding, and fusion—morphological transitions of soft surfaces
Journal of Physics Condensed Matter
July 2005
Discontinuous Unbinding Transitions of Filament Bundles
Physical Review Letters
July 2005
Point force manipulation and activated dynamics of polymers adsorbed on structured subs...
EPL (Europhysics Letters)
July 2005
Stability of liquid channels or filaments in the presence of line tension
Journal of Physics Condensed Matter
April 2005
Competitive Localization of Vortex Lines and Interacting Bosons
Physical Review Letters
February 2005
Droplets, bubbles, and vesicles at chemically structured surfaces
Journal of Physics Condensed Matter
February 2005
Duality mapping and unbinding transitions of semiflexible and directed polymers
Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General
February 2005
Activated dynamics of semiflexible polymers on structured substrates
The European Physical Journal E
January 2005
Erratum: Lindemann criterion and vortex lattice phase transitions in type-II supercondu...
Physical Review B
January 2005
A general stability criterion for droplets on structured substrates
Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General
November 2004
Barrier crossing of semiflexible polymers
EPL (Europhysics Letters)
June 2004
Stretching of semiflexible polymers with elastic bonds
The European Physical Journal E
May 2004
Single-vortex fluctuations in layered superconductors: Electromagnetic coupling and cro...
Physical Review B
April 2004
Lindemann criterion and vortex lattice phase transitions in type-II superconductors
Physical Review B
January 2004
Unbundling and desorption of semiflexible polymers
EPL (Europhysics Letters)
April 2003
Theory of Plastic Vortex Creep
Physical Review Letters
December 2000
Dislocations and the critical endpoint of the melting line of vortex line lattices
June 2000
Topological order in the phase diagram for high-temperature superconductors with point ...
Physica C Superconductivity
May 1998
Topological order in the vortex-glass phase of high-temperature superconductors
January 1997
Interacting Arrays of Lines and Steps in Random Media
Physical Review Letters
November 1996
Replica Symmetry Breaking in Renormalization: Application to the Randomly Pinned Planar...
Journal de Physique I
March 1995
Cooperative Behaviour of Semiflexible Polymers and Filaments