Publications

Emergence of helicity in double-stranded semiflexible chains with steric interactions

F. Dary, H. Liang, and E. H. Yong, forthcoming

G4ShapePredictor: Machine learning-based folding topology prediction of unimolecular DNA G-quadruplex in K+ solution

D. Liew, Z. W. Lim, and E. H. Yong, forthcoming

RNA folding analysis using mean free energy approach

R. Masuki, D. Liew, and E. H. Yong, In preparation.

Elucidating Antibiotic Permeation Through the Escherichia coli Outer Membrane: Insights from Molecular Dynamics

J. Deylami, S. S. Chng, and E. H. Yong, forthcoming.

E.H. Yong, F. Dary, L. Giomi, and L. Mahadevan,
“Reply to van der Heijden and Starostin: On the persistent helicity of fluctuating ribbons,”
PNAS, 121 (28), e2303436121, 2024 

N. Zhang and E. H. Yong,
“Dynamics, statistics, and task allocation of foraging ants,”
Phys. Rev. E 108, 054306 (2023).

E. H. Yong, F. Dary, L. Giomi, and L. Mahadevan,

"Statistics and topology of fluctuating ribbons,"

PNAS 119 (32), e2122907119 (2022).

T. H. Gray, C. Castelnovo, and E. H. Yong,

"Enhanced diffusion in soft-walled channels with a periodically varying curvature,"

Phys. Rev. E 105, 054141 (2022).

H. Chen and E. H. Yong,

"How zealots affect the energy cost for controlling complex social networks,"
Chaos 32, 063116 (2022).

H. Chen and E. H. Yong,
"Energy cost study for controlling complex social networks with conformity behavior,"
Phys. Rev. E 104, 014301 (2021).

T. H. Gray and E. H. Yong,
"An effective one dimensional approach to calculating mean first passage time in multi-dimensional potentials,"
J. Chem. Phys. 154, 084103 (2021).

H. Chen and E. H. Yong,
"Optimizing target node set for the control energy of directed complex networks,"
Sci. Rep. 10, 18112 (2020).

T. H. Gray and E. H. Yong,
"Effective diffusion in one-dimensional rough potential energy landscapes,"
Phys. Rev. E 102, 022138 (2020).

T. H. Gray and E. H. Yong,
"Overdamped Brownian dynamics in piecewise-defined energy landscapes,"
Phys. Rev. E 101, 052123 (2020).

M. C. Stoddard, C. Sheard, D. Akkaynak, E. H. Yong, L. Mahadevan, and J. Tobias,
"Evolution of avian egg shape: underlying mechanisms and the importance of taxonomic scale,"
International Journal of Avian Science, 161(4), 922-925 (2019).

H. K. Teoh and E. H. Yong,
"Renormalization group study of Nagel-Schreckenberg model,"
Phys. Rev. E 97, 032314 (2018).

M. Zeng and E. H. Yong,
"Crooks Fluctuation Theorem in PT-symmetric Quantum Mechanics,"
J. Phys. Commun. 1, 031001 (2017).

M. Zeng and E. H. Yong,
"Discrete-Time Quantum Walk with Binary Phase Disorder: Localization and Entanglement Entropy,"
Sci. Rep. 7, 12024 (2017). 

M. C. Stoddard, E. H. Yong, D. Akkaynak, C. Sheard, J. Tobias, and L. Mahadevan,
"Form, Function and Evolution of Avian Egg Shape,"
Science 356, 1249–1254 (2017).

Cover of Science vol. 356, issue 6344.  Review Article on paper.

E. H. Yong and L. Mahadevan,
"Statistical Mechanics and Shape Transitions in Microscopic Plates,"
Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 048101 (2014).

E. H. Yong, D. R. Nelson and L. Mahadevan,
"Elastic Platonic Shells,"
Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 177801 (2013).

Cover of Physical Review Letters vol. 111, issue 17

O. Sahin, E. H. Yong,  A. Driks and L. Mahadevan,
"Physical basis for the adaptive flexibility of bacillus spore coats,"
J. R. Soc. Interface, 9, 3156-3160, (2012).

E. H. Yong and L. Mahadevan,
"Probability, geometry and dynamics in the toss of a thick coin,"
Am. J. Phys. 79(12):1195-1201 (2011)

E. H. Yong and L. Mahadevan,
"Probability, geometry and dynamics in the toss of a thick coin,"
Am. J. Phys. 79(12):1195-1201 (2011).

Cover of American Journal of Physics vol. 79, issue 12