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On growth and morphogenesis in mechanobiology
Angelo Rosario Carotenuto, Stefania Palumbo, Arsenio Cutolo +1
Morphoelasticity represents a foundational theory for tracing back growth, remodelling, and morphogenesis, yet crucial challenges persist. A unified growth law -- independent of a…
The interplay between membrane viscosity and ligand-binding receptor kinetics in lipid bilayers
Chiara Bernard, Angelo Rosario Carotenuto, Nicola Maria Pugno +2
Plasma membranes appear as deformable systems wherein molecules are free to move and diffuse giving rise to condensed microdomains (composed of ordered lipids, transmembrane protei…
Toward new scaling laws for wrinkling in biologically relevant fiber-reinforced bilayers
A. Mirandola, A. Cutolo, A. R. Carotenuto +4
Wrinkling, creasing and folding are frequent phenomena encountered in biological and man-made bilayers made by thin films bonded to thicker and softer substrates often containing f…
Towards predicting shear-banding instabilities in lipid monolayers
A. R. Carotenuto, A. Gaffney, K. Y. C. Lee +3
Langmuir monolayers are advantageous systems used to investigate how lipid membranes get involved in the physiology of many living structures, such as collapse phenomena in alveola…
Bimodal buckling governs human fingers luxation
Massimiliano Fraldi, Stefania Palumbo, Arsenio Cutolo +2
Equilibrium bifurcation in natural systems can sometimes be explained as a route to stress shielding for preventing failure. Although compressive buckling has been known for a long…
Toughening and mechanosensing in bone: a perfectly balanced mechanism based on competing stresses
M. Fraldi, A. Cutolo, A. R. Carotenuto +3
Bone is a stiff and though, hierarchical and continuously evolving material that optimizes its structure to respond to mechanical stimuli, which also govern growth and remodeling p…
Unveiling a new shear stress transfer mechanism in composites with helically wound hierarchical fibres
A. Cutolo, A. R. Carotenuto, S. Palumbo +3
The mechanical performance of reinforced composites is strongly influenced at different scales by the stress transferred at the matrix-fibre interfaces and at any surface where mat…
Mechanobiology predicts raft formations triggered by ligand-receptor activity across the cell membrane
A. R. Carotenuto, L. Lunghi, V. Piccolo +6
Clustering of ligand-binding receptors of different types on thickened isles of the cell membrane, namely lipid rafts, is an experimentally observed phenomenon. Although its influe…
Buckling Soft Tensegrities: Fickle Elasticity and Configurational Switching in Living Cells
Massimiliano Fraldi, Stefania Palumbo, Angelo Rosario Carotenuto +3
Tensegrity structures are special architectures made by floating compressed struts kept together by a continuous system of tensed cables. The multiplicity of shapes that tensegrity…