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Som, A.; Quijano Rincon, M. V. F.; Hempel, N.; Johannknecht, L.; Obenauer, M.; Czodrowski, P.; Weil, T.; Besenius, P. Cucurbit[8]Uril Couples Enzymatic and Supramolecular Reaction Networks for Peptide Isomerization and Recognition in Gain-of-Function Hydrogels. chemRxiv August 19, 2026. https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.15007664/v1

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Bhola, R.; Damle, K. Random Geometry of Maximum-Density Dimer Packings of the Site-Diluted Kagome Lattice. Phys. Rev. B 2026, 114 (10), 105125. https://doi.org/10.1103/gktr-c1sv

Yu, M.; Dhiman, S.; Dormann, D.; Gräter, F.; Luck, K.; Schmid, F.; Walther, A.; Lemke, E. A. Polymer Concepts in Cellular Function. Advanced Science 2026. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.76934

Hubrich, D.; Alvarado Valverde, J.; Lee, C. Y.; Djokic, M.; Welzel, M.; Hintz, K.; Strom, J. M.; Luck, K. Variant Characterization in the Intrinsically Disordered Human Proteome. Nat Struct Mol Biol 2026, 33 (8), 1183–1193. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41594-026-01846-z

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Dillenburg, R. F.; Lopatina, A.; Ruan, H.; Scheidt, T.; Mosna, S.; Pekbilir, E.; Bieber, J.; Schäfer-Depoix, F.; Landfester, K.; Schmidt, C.; Möckel, M. M.; Morsbach, S.; Schmid, F.; Dormann, D.; Stelzl, L.; Girard, M.; Lemke, E. A. A Phosphorylation-Induced Micellization Switch in the Low-Complexity Domain of TDP-43. Advanced Science 2026, e76625. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.76625

Meyberg, E.; Robinson, J. F.; Speck, T. Impact of Currents on Non-Equilibrium Coexistence in Chemically Driven Mixtures. The Journal of Chemical Physics 2026, 165 (4). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0336459

Burgardt, S.; Feß, J.; Guthmann, A.; Hiebel, S.; Mukhopadhyay, A. K.; Lee, S.; Vrugt, M. te; Liebchen, B.; Löwen, H.; Wittkowski, R.; Widera, A. Quantum-Enabled Active Matter at the Atomic Scale. arXiv July 28, 2026. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.24615

Chen, X.; Hebestreit, L.; Schmid, F. From Real Polymers to Random Graphs: Percolation Thresholds in Associative Polymer Solutions. arXiv July 28, 2026. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2607.25534

Te Vrugt, M.; Liebchen, B.; Cates, M. E. Colloquium : What Do We Mean by ‘Active Matter’? Rev. Mod. Phys. 2026, 98 (3), 031001. https://doi.org/10.1103/wd4f-q7kv

Roth, P.; Harley, I.; Santucci, M.; Albanese, K. I.; Riazimand, Z.; Lieberwirth, I.; Kolb, U.; Ng, D. Y. W.; Landfester, K.; Sharp, T. H.; Weil, T.; Woolfson, D. N. Arginine Tuning of Coiled-Coil Peptides Yields Single-Domain Nanocrystals. chemRxiv July 10, 2026. https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.15005921/v1

Antonov, A. P.; Lee, S.; Liebchen, B.; Löwen, H.; Melles, J.; Morigi, G.; Tuchkov, Y.; Vrugt, M. te. Modeling Dissipation in Quantum Active Matter. Physical Review A 2026, 114 (1). https://doi.org/10.1103/4gyc-3pht

Gosai, J.; Arasteh, A.; Henderson, E.; Yang, Z.; Bhola, R.; Zeytuni, N.; Choubey, S.; Shrivastava, A. A Sensory Pathway Controls Motile Microcolony Formation and Spatial Organization in Gliding Bacteria. bioRxiv July 2, 2026. https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.07.01.735801

Link, J.; Lahu, A.; Wagner, M.; Weil, T.; Ng, D. Y. W. The Role of Spacer Length and Flexibility in Peptide Self-Assembly. Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry 2026, 22, 986–996. https://doi.org/10.3762/bjoc.22.77

Schuler, M.; Koca, E.; Driehaus-Ortiz, L.; Braun, M. G.; Lahu, A.; Holtmannspötter, A.-L.; Nguyen, H.-C.; Boekhoven, J.; Ng, D. Y. W.; Weil, T. Reversible Nucleolar Complex Coacervation by Short Cationic Peptides. Journal American Chemical Society 2026, 148 (26), 27528–27539. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6c06046

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Zadorozhna, Y.; Uliana, F.; Zippo, E.; Busch, A.; Kretschmer, N.; Mosna, S.; Suk, Y.; Chen, J.; Hallegger, M.; Schmidt, C.; Stelzl, L.; Dormann, D. Phase Separation Behavior of TDP-43 Governs Its Protein Interactome and Regulation of Alternative Splicing. bioRxiv June 20, 2026. https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.04.06.716630

Pradhan, B.; Pinto, A.; Tetiker, D.; Kanno, T.; Fisher, G. L. M.; Baaske, M. D.; Cutts, E. E.; Chatzicharlampous, C.; Schüler, H.; Deep, A.; Corbett, K. D.; Aragon, L.; Virnau, P.; Björkegren, C.; Kim, E. A DNA Tension-Dependent Tug-of-War between Dimeric SMC Motors Governs Loop Extrusion Directionality. bioRxiv June 18, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.12.612694

Gaurav, K.; Baltz, L.; Páez-Moscoso, D. J.; Ketting, R. F.; Stelzl, L. S. Atomistic Simulations Reveal Sub-µs Contact Dynamics in MUT-16 Condensates. eLife 2026. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.111559.1

Chagri, S.; Kunz, S.; Burgstaller, A.; Sprang, M.; Schirra, C.; Link, J.; Zhou, Z.; Meyer, R.; Fetzer, J.; Roth, P.; Ren, Y.; Si, S.; Mazzotta, F.; Wagner, M.; Lieberwirth, I.; Landfester, K.; Mayer, J. U.; Ng, D. Y. W.; Staufer, O.; Bopp, T.; Weil, T. Intracellular Peptide Nanofibers Enhance T Cell Fitness and Anti-Cancer Activity. chemRxiv June 15, 2026. https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2024-3lxgk/v2

Gaurav, K.; Badr, R.; Changiarath, A.; Xenidis, V. A.; Stelzl, L. S. Active Learning–Guided Peptide Design for Modulating Condensate Properties upon Recruitment. bioRxiv June 10, 2026. https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.06.06.730477

Hutten, S.; Pekbilir, E.; Bourgeois, B.; Ping, X.; Rickert, C.; Kuhr, N.; Knabe, N.; Mosna, S.; Madl, T.; Stelzl, L. S.; Dormann, D. TDP-43 Self-Assembly Is Regulated by Its Disordered NLS-Region. bioRxiv June 9, 2026. https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.06.06.730435

Shoup, S.; Schaaf, A.; Hertäg, K.; Sattler, A.-S.; Gelléri, M.; Kielisch, F.; Speck, T.; Schick, S. BRD4, Mediator, and Pol II Form Heterogeneous Condensates with Distinct Transcriptional and Acetylation-Dependent States. bioRxiv June 8, 2026. https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.06.04.729043

Ping, X.; Badr, R. G. M.; Hutten, S.; Chen, X.; Baltz, L.; Yadav, M.; Schmid, F.; Dormann, D.; Stelzl, L. S. Multi-Domain Interplay Controls Full-Length TDP-43 Phase Separation and Condensate Dynamics. bioRxiv June 6, 2026. https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.06.03.729912

Hertäg, K.; Shoup, S.; Thews, L. T.; Khatter, R.; Ferrario, E.; Robinson, J. F.; Wittmann, S.; Schick, S.; Speck, T. Active Field Theory Approach to Explain Size Control of Transcriptional Condensates. bioRxiv May 20, 2026. https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.05.17.725716

Conte, F.; Ostermaier, M.; Wang, J.; Goss, C.; Sayols, S.; Chen, J.-X.; Roukos, V.; Gräter, F.; Aponte-Santamaría, C.; Luck, K.; Beli, P. The Phosphoproteomic Landscape of the DNA Damage Response. bioRxiv May 13, 2026. https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.05.11.724232

Schönberger, P.; Naskar, S.; Ordowski, O.; Vollrath, J.; Chen, J.-X.; Möckel, M. M.; Gelléri, M.; Renz, C.; Langer, J. D.; Kremer, K.; Kukharenko, O.; Ulrich, H. D. SUMO Paralogues Differentially Affect Phase Separation and Aggregation of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins. bioRxiv May 13, 2026. https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.05.11.724321

Bertin, M.; Misak, M.; Navandar, M.; Soliman, A.; Lambuta, R.-A.; Tumdam, R.; Winter, J.; Linke, M.; Käseberg, S.; Dewenter, M.; Komlosi, K.; Zografidou, L.; Tüscher, O.; Davydenko, S.; Pieh, D.; Foerster, J.; Gerber, S.; Schweiger, S. 16P11.2 Copy Number Variation Alters Genome Architecture and Transcriptional Regulation During Neurodevelopment. bioRxiv May 8, 2026. https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.05.07.723480

Fritzen, J.; Samanta, A.; Kuhr, N. S.; Preuß, A.; Sternburg, E. L.; Stelzl, L. S.; Michels, J. J.; Dormann, D.; Walther, A. Programmable DNA Protonuclei Reveal Environmental Context on Protein Phase Separation. bioRxiv May 8, 2026. https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.04.07.716875

Zhang, J.; Winterwerber, P.; Jeena, M. T.; Alleva, N.; Ren, Y.; Braun, M. G.; Lahu, A.; Ng, D. Y. W.; Weil, T. Spatially Defined Patterning of Diverse Polymers on Triangular DNA Origami. chemRxiv May 6, 2026. https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.15002799/v1

Butto, T.; Pastore, S.; Müller, M.; Iyer, K. V.; Jörg, M.; Brechtel, J.; Mündnich, S.; Wierczeiko, A.; Friedland, K.; Helm, M.; Winz, M.-L.; Gerber, S. Real-Time Transcriptomic Profiling in Distinct Experimental Conditions. eLife 2026, 13. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.98768

Lee, S.; Tuchkov, Y.; Antonov, A. P.; Liebchen, B.; Löwen, H.; Morigi, G.; Vrugt, M. te. Anomalous Mean-Squared Displacement in Quantum Active Matter from a Wigner Phase-Space Framework. arXiv April 24, 2026. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.22600

Kutzner, M.; Junglas, B.; Sharma, M.; Sachse, C.; Schneider, D. Membrane Interaction of Cyanobacterial and Chloroplast ESCRT ‐ III Proteins. The Plant Journal 2026, 126 (1), e70843. https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70843

Sys, S.; Misak, M.; Soliman, A.; Herrera-Rodriguez, R.; Lambuta, R.-A.; Weißbach, S.; Wand, M.; Everschor-Sitte, K.; Schweiger, S.; Michels, J. J.; Padeken, J.; Gerber, S. Correcting Preprocessing Bias in Sparse Chromatin Contact Data Enables Physically Interpretable Reconstruction of Genome Architecture. bioRxiv April 2, 2026. https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.03.31.715622

Consorte, A.; Michowicz, J.; Carey, F.; Möckel, M. M.; El Sherif, Y.; Wittkopp, N.; Ketting, R. F. Tdrd6a and Tdrd6b Are Required Together for Germ Plasm Formation. Development 2026, 153 (6), dev204545. https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.204545

Pinto, A. J.; Pradhan, B.; Tetiker, D.; Schmitt, M. P.; Kim, E.; Virnau, P. SMC Motor Proteins Operate at the Near-Minimal Forces for DNA Loop Extrusion. bioRxiv March 10, 2026. https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.03.05.709531

Vrugt, M. te; Löwen, H.; Brand, H. R.; Wittkowski, R. Extended Dynamical Density Functional Theory for Nonisothermal Binary Systems Including Momentum Density. arXiv March 5, 2026. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2603.04973

Tretow, K.; Keller, M.; Mesitov, M.; Ćorović, M.; Brüggemann, M.; Busam, J.; Zhuang, F.; Körtel, N.; Melchior, N.; Busch, A.; Braun, S.; Hellmann, N.; Hänel, H.; Besenius, P.; Strand, S.; Barash, Y.; Legewie, S.; Schmid, F.; König, J.; Zarnack, K. RNA G-Quadruplexes Mediate Cooperativity in HNRNPH Binding and Splicing Regulation. bioRxiv March 3, 2026. https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.03.03.709289

Quarta, N.; Debrich, K.; Hellmann, N.; Ge, X.; Argudo, P. G.; Bhandari, T. R.; Bonn, M.; Girard, M.; Parekh, S. H.; Liu, L.-N.; Schneider, D. The Structured Hairpin Region of the Bacterial ESCRT-III Protein IM30 Orchestrates Stress-Induced Condensate Formation. bioRxiv March 1, 2026. https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.02.28.708693

Ghosh, D.; Kumar, M.; Forti, R. D.; Mueller, B.; Ng, D. Y. W.; Dhiman, S. Polymer-Encoded Spatial Organization of Antibodies in Complex Coacervates. chemRxiv February 20, 2026. https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.15000265/v1

Quarta, N.; Bhandari, T. R.; Debrich, K.; Hellmann, N.; Girard, M.; Schneider, D. The Cyanobacterial ESCRT-III Protein IM30 Forms Biomolecular Condensates at Physiologically Relevant Conditions. Biophysical Journal 2026, 125 (4), 1081–1094. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2026.01.011

Ahmadi, M.; Wittek, K.; Rieger, H. S.; Thomas, M.; Hartmann, L.; Besenius, P.; Seiffert, S. Metal Ion-Specific Modulation of Network Connectivity and Defects in Poly(Ethylene Glycol)–Peptide Conjugate Assemblies and Hydrogels. Chem. Mater. 2026, 38 (3), 1240–1252. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.5c02542

Chen, X.; Vishnu, J. A.; Besenius, P.; König, J.; Schmid, F. Dilute but Dense – Reversible Crosslinking Enables Water-Rich (Bio)Polymer Condensates. Advanced Science 2026, 13 (20), e19636. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202519636

Kumar, M.; Alagna, N.; A. Toboso Saiz, J.; Sharma, S.; Gerber, S.; Dhiman, S. A Gene-Free Minimal System for Synthetic Quorum Sensing in Protocell Communities. chemRxiv January 15, 2026. https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2026-st155

Lahu, A.; Wu, S.-L.; Schuler, M.; Mazzotta, F.; Ramadani, A.; Koca, E.; Lieberwirth, I.; Landfester, K.; John, T.; Ng, D. Y. W.; Weil, T. Co-Assemblies Regulate the Catalytic Activity of Peptide Fibrils. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2026, n/a (n/a), e11165. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202511165

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