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Roadmap for Optical Tweezers
Giovanni Volpe, Onofrio M. Maragò, Halina Rubinzstein-Dunlop +80
Optical tweezers are tools made of light that enable contactless pushing, trapping, and manipulation of objects ranging from atoms to space light sails. Since the pioneering work b…
Poroelasticity of (bio)polymer networks during compression: theory and experiment
Melle T. J. J. M. Punter, Bart E. Vos, Bela M. Mulder +1
Soft living tissues like cartilage can be considered as biphasic materials comprised of a fibrous complex biopolymer network and a viscous background liquid. Here, we show by a com…
Biopolymers: life's mechanical scaffolds
Federica Burla, Yuval Mulla, Bart E. Vos +2
The cells and tissues that make up our body juggle contradictory mechanical demands. It is crucial for their survival to be able to withstand large mechanical loads, but it is equa…
Normal stresses in semiflexible polymer hydrogels
Mahsa Vahabi, Bart E. Vos, Henri C. G. de Cagny +3
Biopolymer gels such as fibrin and collagen networks are known to develop tensile axial stress when subject to torsion. This negative normal stress is opposite to the classical Poy…
Programming filamentous network mechanics by compression
Bart E. Vos, Luka C. Liebrand, Mahsa Vahabi +6
Fibrous networks are ideal functional materials since they provide mechanical rigidity at low weight. Such structures are omnipresent in natural biomaterials from cells to tissues,…
Porosity governs normals stresses in polymer gels
Henri C. G. de Cagny, Bart E. Vos, Mahsa Vahabi +5
When sheared, most elastic solids such as metals, rubbers and polymer hydrogels dilate in the direction perpendicular to the shear plane. This well-known behaviour known as the Poy…