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Reentrant Rigidity Percolation in Structurally Correlated Filamentous Networks
Jonathan Michel, Gabriel von Kessel, Thomas Wyse Jackson +3
Many biological tissues feature a heterogeneous network of fibers whose tensile and bending rigidity contribute substantially to these tissues' elastic properties. Rigidity percola…
Active Cytoskeletal Composites Display Emergent Tunable Contractility and Restructuring
Gloria Lee, Gregor Leech, Pancy Lwin +7
The cytoskeleton is a model active matter system that controls diverse cellular processes from division to motility. While both active actomyosin dynamics and actin-microtubule int…
Structural disorder on small scales softens hierarchical structures
Jonathan Michel, Peter J. Yunker
Hierarchically structured materials, which possess distinct features on different length scales, are ubiquitous in nature and engineering. In many cases, one structural level may b…
Structural hierarchy confers error tolerance in biological tissues
Jonathan Michel, Peter Yunker
Structural hierarchy, in which materials possess distinct features on multiple length scales, is ubiquitous in nature; diverse biological materials, such as bone, cellulose, and mu…