Xudan Ye

Section snippets Significance Previous work has demonstrated that crowdants altered single microtubule (MT) filament elongation rates in vitro based on small-sized decreases, while large increases were seen to be correlated to increased viscosity in vivo. Here, we examine MT polymerization dynamics with crowdants of different sizes by in vitro reconstitution and relate crowdant size, concentration, and viscosity to MT elongation and nucleation.

3.2. Normal Force of ALC and ALCH in Oscillation Mode 3.2.1. The Effect of Magnetic Fields on Normal Forces Under the conditions of applying a strain excitation signal frequency f = 1 Hz and an amplitude r0 = 0.1%, magnetic field scans were performed on ALCH and ALC samples. The magnetic field intensity was scanned from 0 to 860 kA/m, and then from 860 back to 0 kA/m, resulting in the curve of the relationship between the normal force and the magnetic field intensity, as shown in Figure 8.