New Publication on Tubular Structure Transformation

Our new paper in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface led by the Potsdam group as part of the OPUS-LAP project has been published. This is a truly interdisciplinary approach to dissecting one of the stages of prolamellar body formation. The study explores geometric modelling of transformations of packings of cylinders that coalesce together to form bicontinuous structures. Using computational modelling, we demonstrated that specific tubular packings transform into highly symmetric triply periodic minimal surfaces (TPMS), providing a geometric foundation for further investigation into the PLB as well as other occurrences of bicontinuous membranes.