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Visualizing Adhesion Formation in Cells by Means of Advanced Spinning Disk-Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Microscopy
Published on: January 21, 2019
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A Puente1, R G Nazmitdinov1,2, M Cerkaski3
1Departament de Física, Universitat de les Illes Balears, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Abstract:
We demonstrate that our model [Phys. Rev. E 91, 032312 (2015)PLEEE81539-375510.1103/PhysRevE.91.032312] serves as a useful tool to trace the evolution of equilibrium configurations of one-component charged particles confined in a disk. Our approach reduces significantly the computational effort in minimizing the energy of equilibrium configurations, and it demonstrates a remarkable agreement with the values provided by molecular-dynamics calculations. We show that the Comment misrepresents our paper and fails to provide plausible arguments against the formation hexagonal structure for n≥200 in molecular-dynamics calculations.
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