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  1. Capturing the mechanosensitivity of cell proliferation in models of epithelium

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, October 2024, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Ana-Suncana Smith

  2. Optimal motion of triangular magnetocapillary swimmers

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, September 2019, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ana-Suncana Smith, Dr Galien Grosjean, Prof. Dr. Jens Harting

  3. Multiscale approaches to protein-mediated interactions between membranes—relating microscopic and macroscopic dynamics in radially growing adhesions

    Article • New Journal of Physics, August 2015, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Ana-Suncana Smith

  4. Complementary Molecular Dynamics and X-ray Reflectivity Study of an Imidazolium-Based Ionic Liquid at a Neutral Sapphire Interface

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, February 2015, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Ana-Suncana Smith

  5. Forces and shapes as determinants of micro-swimming: effect on synchronisation and the utilisation of drag

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Ana-Suncana Smith

  6. Association Rates of Membrane-Coupled Cell Adhesion Molecules

    Article • Biophysical Journal, December 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Ana-Suncana Smith

  7. ChemInform Abstract: Rhodomyrtals A-D, Four Unusual Phloroglucinol-Sesquiterpene Adducts from Rhodomyrtus psidioides.

    Article • ChemInform, November 2014, Wiley

    Professor Ana-Suncana Smith

  8. Calculating CD Spectra of Flexible Peptides: An Assessment of TD-DFT Functionals

    Article • Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, August 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Ana-Suncana Smith

  9. Establishing conditions for simulating hydrophobic solutes in electric fields by molecular dynamics

    Article • Journal of Molecular Modeling, August 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ana-Suncana Smith

  10. Signature of a Nonharmonic Potential as Revealed from a Consistent Shape and Fluctuation Analysis of an Adherent Membrane

    Article • Physical Review X, May 2014, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ana-Suncana Smith

  11. Novel Growth Regime of MDCK II Model Tissues on Soft Substrates

    Article • Biophysical Journal, April 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Florian Rehfeldt, Professor Ana-Suncana Smith

  12. Facile colloidal coating of polystyrene nanospheres with tunable gold dendritic patches

    Article • Nanoscale, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Ana-Suncana Smith

  13. Rhodomyrtals A–D, four unusual phloroglucinol-sesquiterpene adducts from Rhodomyrtus psidioides

    Article • RSC Advances, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Ana-Suncana Smith

  14. Physics of cell adhesion: some lessons from cell-mimetic systems

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Erich Sackmann, Professor Ana-Suncana Smith

  15. Nucleation of Ligand-Receptor Domains in Membrane Adhesion

    Article • Physical Review Letters, December 2012, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ana-Suncana Smith

  16. All good things come in threes—Three beads learn to swim with lattice Boltzmann and a rigid body solver

    Article • Journal of Computational Science, September 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Ana-Suncana Smith

  17. Coexistence of dilute and densely packed domains of ligand-receptor bonds in membrane adhesion

    Article • EPL (Europhysics Letters), August 2012, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Ana-Suncana Smith

  18. Calculation of the CD Spectrum of a Peptide from Its Conformational Phase Space: The Case of Met-enkephalin and Its Unnatural Analogue

    Article • Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, May 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Ana-Suncana Smith

  19. The Protonation States of the Active-Site Histidines in (6–4) Photolyase

    Article • Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, March 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Ana-Suncana Smith

  20. Switching from Ultraweak to Strong Adhesion

    Article • Advanced Materials, April 2011, Wiley

    Professor Ana-Suncana Smith

  21. Two intertwined facets of adherent membranes: membrane roughness and correlations between ligand–receptors bonds

    Article • New Journal of Physics, February 2011, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Ana-Suncana Smith

  22. Inter-membrane adhesion mediated by mobile linkers: Effect of receptor shortage

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2011, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Ana-Suncana Smith

  23. Physics challenged by cells

    Article • Nature Nanotechnology, October 2010, Nature

    Professor Ana-Suncana Smith

  24. Dynamics of Specific Vesicle-Substrate Adhesion: From Local Events to Global Dynamics

    Article • Physical Review Letters, November 2008, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ana-Suncana Smith

  25. Vesicles as a model for controlled (de-)adhesion of cells: a thermodynamic approach

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2007, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Ana-Suncana Smith

  26. Force-Controlled Equilibria of Specific Vesicle-Substrate Adhesion

    Article • Biophysical Journal, April 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Ana-Suncana Smith

  27. Antagonist-Induced Deadhesion of Specifically Adhered Vesicles

    Article • Biophysical Journal, February 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Ana-Suncana Smith

  28. Effective adhesion strength of specifically bound vesicles

    Article • Physical Review E, June 2005, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ana-Suncana Smith

  29. Pulling Tethers from Adhered Vesicles

    Article • Physical Review Letters, May 2004, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ana-Suncana Smith