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Challenges of public health and sustainable development require replacing in food products animal proteins by plant proteins. In this optics, it is crucial to understand the structure and kinetic of formation of a film of plant proteins in order to improve the control of emulsions and foams stabilized by these proteins.In this talk we will present experimental results on the behaviour interfacial properties of wheat gluten, sunflower and rapeseed proteins at liquid interfaces. Thanks to a combination of tensiometry, dilatational rheology and ellipsometry, rational physical pictures of the dynamics of the interfacial properties are achieved, for the various proteins and at both air/water and oil/water interfaces. For gluten proteins, a time-concentration superposition of the data is evidenced whatever the subphase concentration, which reveals that the kinetics of protein adsorption at the interface is dominated by bulk diffusion. We propose a consistent physical picture of the multistep diffusion-controlled irreversible adsorption of the gliadin proteins at an air/water interface, and evidence surface-induced conformational changes of the proteins followed by film gelation [1]. Sunflower and rapeseed proteins by contrast do not reorganize once adsorbed at an interface and display a simpler dynamics of film formation. In addition the failure at high concentration of the time-concentration superposition of the tensiometry and viscoelastic data strongly suggest a surface-induced aggregation process, which we confirm with turbidity measurements. By quantitatively comparing the surface pressure dependence viscoelasticity of the various interfaces, we hightlight the crucial role on the behavior of plant proteins at liquid interfaces of the solvent quality and of the protein softness, that is discussed in regard to the protein structure.

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Efficient bacterial chromosome segregation typically requires the coordinated action of a three-component, fueled by adenosine triphosphate machinery called the partition complex. We present a phenomenological model accounting for the dynamic activity of this system that is also relevant for the physics of catalytic particles in active environments. The model is obtained by coupling simple linear reaction-diffusion equations with a proteophoresis, or “volumetric” chemophoresis, force field that arises from protein-protein interactions and provides a physically viable mechanism for complex translocation. This minimal description captures most known experimental observations: dynamic oscillations of complex components, complex separation and subsequent symmetrical positioning. The predictions of our model are in phenomenological agreement with and provide substantial insight into recent experiments. From a non-linear physics view point, this system explores the active separation of matter at micrometric scales with a dynamical instability between static positioning and travelling wave regimes triggered by the dynamical spontaneous breaking of rotational symmetry.

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The configurational entropy is one of the most important thermodynamic quantities characterizing supercooled liquids approaching the glass transition. Despite decades of experimental, theoretical, and computational investigation, a widely accepted definition of the configurational entropy is missing, its quantitative characterization remains fraud with difficulties, misconceptions and paradoxes, and its physical relevance is vividly debated. Motivated by recent computational progress, we offer a pedagogical perspective on the configurational entropy in glass-forming liquids. We first explain why the configurational entropy has become a key quantity to describe glassy materials, from early empirical observations to modern theoretical treatments. We explain why practical measurements necessarily require approximations that make its physical interpretation delicate. We then demonstrate that computer simulations have become an invaluable tool to obtain precise, non-ambiguous, and experimentally-relevant measurements of the configurational entropy. We describe a panel of available computational tools, offering for each method a critical discussion. This perspective should be useful to both experimentalists and theoreticians interested in glassy materials and complex systems.

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We apply a recently developed optimization scheme to obtain effective potentials for alkali andalkaline-earth aluminosilicate glasses that contains lithium, sodium, potassium, or calcium asmodifiers. As input data for the optimization, we used the radial distribution functions of theliquid at high temperature generated by means of ab initio molecular dynamics simulations anddensity and elastic modulus of glass at room temperature from experiments. The new interactionpotentials are able to reproduce reliably the structure and various mechanical and vibrationalproperties over a wide range of compositions for binary silicates. We have tested these potentialsfor various ternary systems and find that they are transferable and can be mixed, thus allowing toreproduce and predict the structure and properties of multi-component glasses.

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