Publications

1. Articles in scientific journals
2. Books
3. Theses

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1. Articles in scientific journals

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  Conformational Space of the Translocation Domain of Botulinum Toxin: Atomistic Modeling and Mesoscopic Description of the Coiled-Coil Helix Bundle Alexandre Delort, Grazia Cottone, Thérèse E. Malliavin, Martin Michael Müller

  
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  Int. J. Mol. Sci., 25: 2481, 2024.

   

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  Flexoelectric fluid membrane vesicles in spherical confinement Niloufar Abtahi, Lila Bouzar, Nadia Saidi-Amroun, Martin Michael Müller

  EPL, 131(1): 18001, 2020. See also arXiv:2006.04475.
  

   

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  Isometric bending requires local constraints on free edges Jemal Guven, Martin Michael Müller, Pablo Vázquez-Montejo

  
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  Math. Mech. Solids, 24: 4051, 2019. See also arXiv:1904.05855.
  

   

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  Helical Superstructure of Intermediate Filaments Lila Bouzar, Martin Michael Müller, René Messina, Bernd Nöding, Sarah Köster, Hervé Mohrbach, Igor M. Kulić

  
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  Phys. Rev. Lett., 122: 098101, 2019. See also arXiv:1803.04691.
  

   

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  Vesicle dynamics in confined steady and harmonically modulated Poiseuille flows Zakaria Boujja, Chaouqi Misbah, Hamid Ez-Zahraouy, Abdelilah Benyoussef, Thomas John, Christian Wagner, Martin Michael Müller

  
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  Phys. Rev. E, 98: 043111, 2018. See also arXiv:1810.04500.
  

   

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  Confining a fluid membrane vesicle of toroidal topology in an adhesive hard sphere Lila Bouzar, Ferhat Menas, Martin Michael Müller

  
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  IOP Conf. Series: MSE, 186: 012021, 2017.

   

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  Squeezed helical elastica Lila Bouzar, Martin Michael Müller, Pierre Gosselin, Igor M. Kulić, Hervé Mohrbach

  
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  Eur. Phys. J. E, 39: 114, 2016. See also arXiv:1606.03611.
  

   

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  How bio-filaments twist membranes Julien Fierling, Albert Johner, Igor M. Kulić, Hervé Mohrbach, Martin Michael Müller

  
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  Soft Matter, 12: 5747, 2016.

   

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  Toroidal membrane vesicles in spherical confinement Lila Bouzar, Ferhat Menas, Martin Michael Müller

  We investigate the morphology of a toroidal fluid membrane vesicle confined inside a spherical container. The equilibrium shapes are assembled in a geometrical phase diagram as a function of scaled area and reduced volume of the membrane. For small area the vesicle can adopt its free form. When increasing the area, the membrane cannot avoid contact and touches the confining sphere along a circular contact line, which extends to a zone of contact for higher area. The elastic energies of the equilibrium shapes are compared to those of their confined counterparts of spherical topology to predict under which conditions a topology change is favored energetically.
  
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  Phys. Rev. E, 92: 032721, 2015. See also arXiv:1509.00765.
  

   

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  Non-linear buckling and symmetry breaking of a soft elastic sheet sliding on a cylindrical substrate Norbert Stoop, Martin Michael Müller

  
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  Int. J. Non-Linear Mech., 75: 115, 2015. See also arXiv:1503.05030.
  

   

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  Crunching Biofilament Rings Julien Fierling, Martin Michael Müller, Hervé Mohrbach, Albert Johner, Igor M. Kulić

  
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  Europhys. Lett., 107(6): 68002, 2014. See also arXiv:1408.6787.
  

   

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  Confotronic dynamics of tubular filaments Osman Kahraman, Hervé Mohrbach, Martin Michael Müller, Igor M. Kulić

  
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  Soft Matter, 10(16): pp. 2836-2847, 2014. See also arXiv:1312.3106.
  

   

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  Whirling skirts and rotating cones Jemal Guven, J. A. Hanna, Martin Michael Müller

  
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  New J. Phys., 15: 113055, 2013. See also arXiv:1306.2619.
  

   

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  Myotubularin and PtdIns3P remodel the sarcoplasmic reticulum in muscle in vivo Leonela Amoasii, Karim Hnia, Gaëtan Chicanne, Andreas Brech, Belinda Simone Cowling, Martin Michael Müller, Yannick Schwab, Pascale Koebel, Arnaud Ferry, Bernard Payrastre, Jocelyn Laporte

  
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  J. Cell Sci., 126(8): 1806, 2013.

   

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  Dipoles in thin sheets Jemal Guven, J. A. Hanna, Osman Kahraman, Martin Michael Müller

  
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  Eur. Phys. J. E, 36: 106, 2013. See also arXiv:1212.3262.
  

   

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  Fluid membrane vesicles in confinement Osman Kahraman, Norbert Stoop, Martin Michael Müller

  We numerically study the morphology of fluid membrane vesicles with prescribed volume and surface area in confinement. For spherical confinement we observe axisymmetric invaginations that transform into ellipsoidal invaginations a the area of the vesicle is increased, followed by a transition into stomatocyte-like shapes. We provide a detailed analysis of the axisymmetric shapes and investigate the effect of the spontaneous curvature of the membrane as a possible mechanism for shape regulation. We show that the observed morphologies are stable under small geometric deformations of the confinement. The results could help to understand the role of mechanics in the complex folding patterns of biological membranes.
  
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  New J. Phys., 14: 095021, 2012.

   

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  Petal shapes of sympetaleous flowers: the interplay between growth, geometry and elasticity Martine Ben Amar, Martin Michael Müller, Miguel Trejo

  
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  New J. Phys., 14: 085014, 2012. Also featured in the Highlights of 2012.

   

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  Morphogenesis of membrane invaginations in spherical confinement Osman Kahraman, Norbert Stoop, Martin Michael Müller

  
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  Europhys. Lett., 97(6): 68008, 2012. See also arXiv:1201.2518.
  

   

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  Conical instabilities on paper Jemal Guven, Martin Michael Müller, Pablo Vázquez-Montejo

  The stability of the fundamental defects of an unstretchable flat sheet is examined. This involves expanding the bending energy to second order in deformations about the defect. The modes of deformation occur as eigenstates of a fourth-order linear differential operator. Unstretchability places a global linear constraint on these modes. Conical defects with a surplus angle exhibit an infinite number of states. If this angle is below a critical value, these states possess an n-fold symmetry labeled by an integer, n ≥ 2. A nonlinear stability analysis shows that the 2-fold ground state is stable, whereas excited states possess 2(n - 2) unstable modes which come in even and odd pairs.
  
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  J. Phys. A: Math. Theor., 45(1): 015203, 2012. See also arXiv:1107.5008.
  

   

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  Interface-mediated interactions: Entropic forces of curved membranes Pierre Gosselin, Hervé Mohrbach, Martin Michael Müller

  
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  Phys. Rev. E, 83(5): 051921, 2011. See also arXiv:1011.1221.
  

   

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  Self-Contact and Instabilities in the Anisotropic Growth of Elastic Membranes Norbert Stoop, Falk K. Wittel, Martine Ben Amar, Martin Michael Müller, Hans J. Herrmann

  
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  Phys. Rev. Lett., 105(6): 068101, 2010. See also arXiv:1007.1871.
  

   

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  Cell Model Approach to Membrane Mediated Protein Interactions Martin Michael Müller, Markus Deserno

  
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  Prog. Theor. Phys. Suppl., 184: pp. 351-363, 2010.

   

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  Hamiltonian formulation of surfaces with constant Gaussian curvature Miguel Trejo, Martine Ben Amar, Martin Michael Müller

  
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  J. Phys. A: Math. Theor., 42(42): 425204, 2009.

   

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  Local Membrane Mechanics of Pore-Spanning Bilayers Ingo Mey, Milena Stephan, Eva K. Schmitt, Martin Michael Müller, Martine Ben Amar, Claudia Steinem, Andreas Janshoff

  
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  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 131(20): pp. 7031-7039, 2009.

   

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  Elasticity Mapping of Pore-Suspending Native Cell Membranes Bärbel Lorenz, Ingo Mey, Siegfried Steltenkamp, Tamir Fine, Christina Rommel, Martin Michael Müller, Alexander Maiwald, Joachim Wegener, Claudia Steinem, Andreas Janshoff

  
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  Small, 5(7): pp. 832-838, 2009.

   

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  Conical Defects in Growing Sheets Martin Michael Müller, Martine Ben Amar, Jemal Guven

  A growing or shrinking disc will adopt a conical shape, its intrinsic geometry characterized by a surplus angle φ_e at the apex. If growth is slow, the cone will find its equilibrium. Whereas this is trivial if φ_e≤0, the disc can fold into one of a discrete infinite number of states if φ_e is positive. We construct these states in the regime where bending dominates, determine their energies and how stress is distributed in them. For each state a critical value of φ_e is identified beyond which the cone touches itself. Before this occurs, all states are stable; the ground state has twofold symmetry.
  
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  Phys. Rev. Lett., 101(15): 156104, 2008. See also arXiv:0807.1814.
  

   

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  How paper folds: bending with local constraints Jemal Guven, Martin Michael Müller

  
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  J. Phys. A: Math. Theor., 41(5): 055203, 2008. See also arXiv:0712.0978.
  

   

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  Contact lines for fluid surface adhesion Markus Deserno, Martin Michael Müller, Jemal Guven

  
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  Phys. Rev. E, 76(1): 011605, 2007. See also cond-mat/0703019.
  Also featured in the Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research.

   

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  Balancing torques in membrane-mediated interactions: Exact results and numerical illustrations Martin Michael Müller, Markus Deserno, Jemal Guven

  
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  Phys. Rev. E, 76(1): 011921, 2007. See also cond-mat/0702340.
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  Aggregation and vesiculation of membrane proteins by curvature-mediated interactions Benedict J. Reynwar, Gregoria Illya, Vagelis A. Harmandaris, Martin Michael Müller, Kurt Kremer, Markus Deserno

  
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  Nature 447(7143): pp. 461-464, 2007.

   

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  How to determine local elastic properties of lipid bilayer membranes from atomic-force-microscope measurements: A theoretical analysis Davood Norouzi, Martin Michael Müller, Markus Deserno

  
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  Phys. Rev. E, 74(6): 061914, 2006. See also cond-mat/0602662.
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  Mechanical Properties of Pore-Spanning Lipid Bilayers Probed by Atomic Force Microscopy Siegfried Steltenkamp, Martin Michael Müller, Markus Deserno, Christian Hennesthal, Claudia Steinem, Andreas Janshoff

  
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  Biophys. J., 91(1): pp. 217-226, 2006.

   

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  Interface mediated interactions between particles -- a geometrical approach Martin Michael Müller, Markus Deserno, Jemal Guven

  
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  Phys. Rev. E, 72(6): 061407, 2005. See also cond-mat/0506019.
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  Geometry of surface-mediated interactions Martin Michael Müller, Markus Deserno, Jemal Guven

  
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  Europhys. Lett., 69(3): pp. 482-488, 2005. See also cond-mat/0409043.
  

   

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2. Books

• New Trends in the Physics and Mechanics of Biological Systems
  Lecture Notes of the Les Houches Summer School, vol. 92 (Oxford University Press, 2011),
  edited by Martine Ben Amar, Alain Goriely, Martin Michael Müller and Leticia Cugliandolo.
  
  Chapter 9:
  The physics of the cell membrane
  Martin Michael Müller and Martine Ben Amar.

3. Theses

• Theoretical examinations of interface mediated interactions between colloidal particles, diploma thesis (2004).



• Theoretical studies of fluid membrane mechanics, dissertation (2007).



• Symmetry breaking in bioelasticity, habilitation thesis (2015).