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SUBMITTER: Sentjabrskaja T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4822008 | biostudies-other | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Sentjabrskaja Tatjana T Zaccarelli Emanuela E De Michele Cristiano C Sciortino Francesco F Tartaglia Piero P Voigtmann Thomas T Egelhaaf Stefan U SU Laurati Marco M
Nature communications 20160404
Many natural and industrial processes rely on constrained transport, such as proteins moving through cells, particles confined in nanocomposite materials or gels, individuals in highly dense collectives and vehicular traffic conditions. These are examples of motion through crowded environments, in which the host matrix may retain some glass-like dynamics. Here we investigate constrained transport in a colloidal model system, in which dilute small spheres move in a slowly rearranging, glassy matr ...[more]