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Filament-Length-Controlled Elasticity in 3D Fiber Networks

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Redundancy and Cooperativity in the Mechanics of Compositely Crosslinked Filamentous Networks

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Molecular Dynamics Simulation of theα-Helix toβ-Sheet Transition in Coiled Protein Filaments: Evidence for a Critical Filament Length Scale

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Nonlinear viscoelasticity of adherent cells is controlled by cytoskeletal tension

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

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Cross-Linked Networks of Stiff Filaments Exhibit Negative Normal Stress

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

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A Quantitative Analysis of Contractility in Active Cytoskeletal Protein Networks

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Nonequilibrium Mechanics and Dynamics of Motor-Activated Gels

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