3 papers
cond-mat.soft2025
Active drive towards elastic spinodals
Ayan Roychowdhury, Madan Rao, Lev Truskinovsky
Active matter, exemplified by adaptive living materials such as the actomyosin cytoskeleton, can navigate material parameter space dynamically, leading to unconventional mechanical…
cond-mat.soft2025
Segregation, Finite Time Elastic Singularities and Coarsening in Renewable Active Matter
Ayan Roychowdhury, Saptarshi Dasgupta, Madan Rao
Material renewability in active living systems, such as in cells and tissues, can drive the large-scale patterning of forces, with distinctive phenotypic consequences. This is espe…
cond-mat.soft2025
Emergence of Tension Chains and Active Force Patterning
Ayan Roychowdhury, Saptarshi Dasgupta, Madan Rao
Viewed under a fluorescence microscope, the actomyosin cytoskeleton presents vivid streaks of lines together with persistent oscillatory waves. Using an active hydrodynamic approac…