Gil Henkin ’14 is a physics major, but that doesn’t prevent him from working magic. In the lab in 222 Abelson, the young scientist conjures mesmerizing images of microscopic systems in motion. These ...

In a new paper in Nature Materials, Brandeis University professor Zvonomir Dogic and his lab explored friction at the microscopic level.They discovered that the force generating friction is much ...

But when Dogic’s team dragged two actin filaments against each other, they observed frictional forces nearly 1,000 times greater than expected — closer to the solid friction created by, say, pushing ...

Scientists in the US have discovered a liquid crystal state with a novel form of symmetry in experiments with filaments isolated from bacteria. Zvonimir Dogic and colleagues at Harvard University and ...

Artificial cilia open new nanotech possibilties; One step closer to learning how cilia movement is coordinated Date: July 28, 2011 Source: Brandeis University ...

In a series of videos, such as the ones above and below, Dogic and his team recorded the cyclic stages through which microtubule bundles grow, bend, buckle, break and grow again.

Sriram Ramaswamy, a physicist at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Hyderabad, India, expects that as other experimentalists build on the Dogic team’s work, this new system will ...