Modeling semiflexible polymer networks

An Improved Non-Affine Arruda-Boyce Type Constitutive Model for Collagen Networks

(2013) Adrian R. Cioroianu et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Equilibrium phase diagram of semi-flexible polymer networks with linkers

(2013) C. J. Cyron et al.   EPL

Nonlinear Elasticity: From Single Chain to Networks and Gels

(2013) Jan-Michael Y. Carrillo et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Responsive biomimetic networks from polyisocyanopeptide hydrogels

(2013) Paul H. J. Kouwer et al.   NATURE

Molecular mechanisms of cellular mechanosensing

(2013) Tianzhi Luo et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Molecular motors robustly drive active gels to a critically connected state

(2013) José Alvarado et al.   Nature Physics

Effective-medium theory of a filamentous triangular lattice

(2013) Xiaoming Mao et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Elasticity of a filamentous kagome lattice

(2013) Xiaoming Mao et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Stress-Enhanced Gelation: A Dynamic Nonlinearity of Elasticity

(2013) Norman Y. Yao et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Fluctuation-Stabilized Marginal Networks and Anomalous Entropic Elasticity

(2013) M. Dennison et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Strain history dependence of the nonlinear stress response of fibrin and collagen networks

(2013) S. Munster et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Hydrodynamics of soft active matter

(2013) M. C. Marchetti et al.   REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS

Low-energy non-linear excitations in sphere packings

(2013) Edan Lerner et al.   Soft Matter

Dynamical behavior of disordered spring networks

(2013) M. G. Yucht et al.   Soft Matter

Anomalous Flexural Behaviors of Microtubules

(2012) Xiaojing Liu et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Toward a microscopic description of flow near the jamming threshold

(2012) E. Lerner et al.   EPL

Stress relaxation through crosslink unbinding in cytoskeletal networks

(2012) C Heussinger   NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS

Minimal model for the inelastic mechanics of biopolymer networks and cells

(2012) Lars Wolff et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Nonlinear effective-medium theory of disordered spring networks

(2012) M. Sheinman et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Actively Stressed Marginal Networks

(2012) M. Sheinman et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Filament-Length-Controlled Elasticity in 3D Fiber Networks

(2012) C. P. Broedersz et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Shear Flow of Non-Brownian Suspensions Close to Jamming

(2012) Bruno Andreotti et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Dynamic Critical Response in Damped Random Spring Networks

(2012) Brian P. Tighe   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Scaling Laws for the Response of Nonlinear Elastic Media with Implications for Cell Mechanics

(2012) Yair Shokef et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Redundancy and Cooperativity in the Mechanics of Compositely Crosslinked Filamentous Networks

(2012) Moumita Das et al.   PLoS One

Active, motor-driven mechanics in a DNA gel

(2012) O. J. N. Bertrand et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Surface phonons, elastic response, and conformal invariance in twisted kagome lattices

(2012) K. Sun et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A unified framework for non-Brownian suspension flows and soft amorphous solids

(2012) E. Lerner et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Topological soft matter: Kagome lattices with a twist

(2012) V. Vitelli   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

F-actin buckling coordinates contractility and severing in a biomimetic actomyosin cortex

(2012) M. P. Murrell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Non-affine deformations in polymer hydrogels

(2012) Qi Wen et al.   Soft Matter

Attenuated short wavelength buckling and force propagation in a biopolymer-reinforced rod

(2012) W. L. Shan et al.   Soft Matter

Rheology of Heterotypic Collagen Networks

(2011) Izabela K. Piechocka et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Nonlinear Viscoelasticity of Actin Transiently Cross-linked with Mutant α-Actinin-4

(2011) Norman Y. Yao et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Nonaffine Displacements in Flexible Polymer Networks

(2011) Anindita Basu et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Slow dynamics and internal stress relaxation in bundled cytoskeletal networks

(2011) O. Lieleg et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Structure formation in active networks

(2011) Simone Köhler et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Criticality and isostaticity in fibre networks

(2011) Chase P. Broedersz et al.   Nature Physics

Cooperative crosslink (un)binding in slowly driven bundles of semiflexible filaments

(2011) Claus Heussinger   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Relaxations and Rheology near Jamming

(2011) Brian P. Tighe   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Internal Stresses, Normal Modes, and Nonaffinity in Three-Dimensional Biopolymer Networks

(2011) E. M. Huisman et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Active multistage coarsening of actin networks driven by myosin motors

(2011) M. Soares e Silva et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The influence of disorder on deformations in semiflexible networks

(2011) J. R. Blundell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Shear thickening of F-actin networks crosslinked with non-muscle myosin IIB

(2011) Melanie Norstrom et al.   Soft Matter

Molecular motors stiffen non-affine semiflexible polymer networks

(2011) C. P. Broedersz et al.   Soft Matter

On the role of the filament length distribution in the mechanics of semiflexible networks

(2010) Mo Bai et al.   Acta Biomaterialia

Actin Filament Length Tunes Elasticity of Flexibly Cross-Linked Actin Networks

(2010) K.E. Kasza et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Elasticity in Ionically Cross-Linked Neurofilament Networks

(2010) Norman Y. Yao et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Structural Hierarchy Governs Fibrin Gel Mechanics

(2010) Izabela K. Piechocka et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

The micromechanics of three-dimensional collagen-I gels

(2010) Andrew M. Stein et al.   COMPLEXITY

Active cellular materials

(2010) Frederick C MacKintosh et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CELL BIOLOGY

Scaling of phononic transport with connectivity in amorphous solids

(2010) M. Wyart   EPL

Transiently crosslinked F-actin bundles

(2010) Dan Strehle et al.   EUROPEAN BIOPHYSICS JOURNAL WITH BIOPHYSICS LETTERS

Divalent Cations Crosslink Vimentin Intermediate Filament Tail Domains to Regulate Network Mechanics

(2010) Yi-Chia Lin et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Universality in Nonlinear Elasticity of Biological and Polymeric Networks and Gels

(2010) Andrey V. Dobrynin et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Cell mechanics and the cytoskeleton

(2010) Daniel A. Fletcher et al.   NATURE

Mechanics and contraction dynamics of single platelets and implications for clot stiffening

(2010) Wilbur A. Lam et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Inelastic mechanics of sticky biopolymer networks

(2010) Lars Wolff et al.   NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS

Nonlocal fluctuation correlations in active gels

(2010) D. A. Head et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Affine-nonaffine transition in networks of nematically ordered semiflexible polymers

(2010) Andrew R. Missel et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Statics and dynamics of the wormlike bundle model

(2010) Claus Heussinger et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Frequency-dependent stiffening of semiflexible networks: A dynamical nonaffine to affine transition

(2010) E. M. Huisman et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Biopolymer network geometries: Characterization, regeneration, and elastic properties

(2010) Stefan B. Lindström et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Semiflexible Filamentous Composites

(2010) E. M. Huisman et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Microtubule Elasticity: Connecting All-Atom Simulations with Continuum Mechanics

(2010) David Sept et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Soft Modes and Elasticity of Nearly Isostatic Lattices: Randomness and Dissipation

(2010) Xiaoming Mao et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Origins of Elasticity in Intermediate Filament Networks

(2010) Yi-Chia Lin et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Cross-Link-Governed Dynamics of Biopolymer Networks

(2010) Chase P. Broedersz et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Brownian Motion of Stiff Filaments in a Crowded Environment

(2010) N. Fakhri et al.   SCIENCE

Strain stiffening induced by molecular motors in active crosslinked biopolymer networks

(2010) Peng Chen et al.   Soft Matter

The Jamming Transition and the Marginally Jammed Solid

(2010) Andrea J. Liu et al.   Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics

Cyclic hardening in bundled actin networks

(2010) K. M. Schmoller et al.   Nature Communications

Structural and Viscoelastic Properties of Actin/Filamin Networks: Cross-Linked versus Bundled Networks

(2009) K.M. Schmoller et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Cytoskeletal Polymer Networks: Viscoelastic Properties are Determined by the Microscopic Interaction Potential of Cross-links

(2009) O. Lieleg et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Mechanical response of active gels

(2009) T. B. Liverpool et al.   EPL

The Mechanics and Fluctuation Spectrum of Active Gels†

(2009) Alex J. Levine et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Nonlinear Elasticity of Stiff Filament Networks: Strain Stiffening, Negative Normal Stress, and Filament Alignment in Fibrin Gels†

(2009) Hyeran Kang et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Jamming of soft particles: geometry, mechanics, scaling and isostaticity

(2009) M van Hecke   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER

Braided bundles and compact coils: The structure and thermodynamics of hexagonally packed chiral filament assemblies

(2009) Gregory M. Grason   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Nonlinear elasticity of stiff biopolymers connected by flexible linkers

(2009) K. E. Kasza et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

High-Resolution Probing of Cellular Force Transmission

(2009) Daisuke Mizuno et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Cooperativity and Frustration in Protein-Mediated Parallel Actin Bundles

(2009) Homin Shin et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Cross-Linked Networks of Stiff Filaments Exhibit Negative Normal Stress

(2009) Enrico Conti et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Diameter-dependent bending dynamics of single-walled carbon nanotubes in liquids

(2009) N. Fakhri et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

An active biopolymer network controlled by molecular motors

(2009) G. H. Koenderink et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Multiscale Mechanics of Fibrin Polymer: Gel Stretching with Protein Unfolding and Loss of Water

(2009) A. E. X. Brown et al.   SCIENCE

A unit-cell approach to the nonlinear rheology of biopolymer solutions

(2009) Pablo Fernández et al.   Soft Matter

Structure and dynamics of cross-linked actin networks

(2009) Oliver Lieleg et al.   Soft Matter

Computational Analysis of Viscoelastic Properties of Crosslinked Actin Networks

(2009) Taeyoon Kim et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Constitutive modeling of the stress–strain behavior of F-actin filament networks

(2008) Jeffrey S. Palmer et al.   Acta Biomaterialia

Dynamic Viscoelasticity of Actin Cross-Linked with Wild-Type and Disease-Causing Mutant α-Actinin-4

(2008) Sabine M. Volkmer Ward et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Buckling and force propagation along intracellular microtubules

(2008) Moumita Das et al.   EPL

Cytoplasmic diffusion: molecular motors mix it up

(2008) Clifford P. Brangwynne et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

Active and Passive Microrheology in Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Systems

(2008) D. Mizuno et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Monte Carlo study of multiply crosslinked semiflexible polymer networks

(2008) E. M. Huisman et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Scaling of nonaffine deformation in random semiflexible fiber networks

(2008) H. Hatami-Marbini et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Microtubule Dynamics Depart from the Wormlike Chain Model

(2008) Katja M. Taute et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Nonequilibrium Mechanics and Dynamics of Motor-Activated Gels

(2008) F. C. MacKintosh et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Transient Binding and Dissipation in Cross-Linked Actin Networks

(2008) O. Lieleg et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Elasticity of Floppy and Stiff Random Networks

(2008) M. Wyart et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Nonlinear Elasticity of Composite Networks of Stiff Biopolymers with Flexible Linkers

(2008) C. P. Broedersz et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Helical twist controls the thickness of F-actin bundles

(2008) M. M. A. E. Claessens et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Dynamics of wormlike and glassy wormlike chains

(2008) Klaus Kroy   Soft Matter

Cytoskeletal Bundle Mechanics

(2007) Mark Bathe et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL