Facultad de Ciencias

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• Soft Condensed Matter Physics and Biophysics: phase transitions, liquids, crystallization, liquid crystals, density functional approximations and extension to dynamical properties.
• Fluctuations in fluid interfaces, capillary waves  and mesoscopic surface hamiltonian.
• Lipid membranes, foams and Newton black films.
• Evolutionary dyanmics, molecular quasi-species and ARN folding.
• Protein filament: mesoscopic descriptions of FtsZ and the link to membrane deformation and segregation.

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Relevant/Recent Publications

1. Effect of dispersion forces on the capillary-wave fluctuations of liquid surfaces, by E. Chacon, E.M. Fernandez and P. Tarazona, Phys. Rev. E 89, 042406 (2014). [URL]
2. Torsion and curvature of FtsZ filaments, by P.  Gonzalez de Prado Salas, Pablo, et al. Soft Matter 10, 1977 (2014). [URL]
3. Intrinsic Fluid Interfaces and Nonlocality, by E.M. Fernandez, et al., Phys. Rev. Lett 111, 096104 (2013). [URL]
4. Depolymerization dynamics of individual filaments of bacterial cytoskeletal protein FtsZ, by P. Mateos-Gil, et al., PNAS 109, 8133 (2012). [URL]
5. Hydrodynamics of nanoscopic capillary waves, by R. Delgado-Buscalioni, E. Chacon and P. Tarazona, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 106102 (2008). [URL]
6. Density functional theories of hard particle systems, by P. Tarazona, J.A. Cuesta and Y. Martinez-Raton, Lectures Nortes in Physics, 753, 247-341, Springer-Verlag (2008). [URL]
7. Density Functional for Hard Sphere Crystals: A Fundamental Measure Approach, by P. Tarazona, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 694 (2000). [URL]
8. Dynamic density functional theory of fluids, by U.Marini Bettolo Marconi and P. Tarazona, J. Chem. Phys. 110, 8032 (1999). [URL]
9. Free energy density functional for hard-spheres, by P. Tarazona, Phys. Rev. A  31, 2672 (1985). [URL]

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