5 papers
Spatiotemporally-resolved differential dynamic microscopy reveals strain-induced deformations in heterogeneous soft materials
Aysan Razzaghi, Mehrzad Sasanpour, Jasmine Ren +5
Understanding the microscopic behavior of materials in response to mechanical perturbations is a central challenge in soft matter, yet existing methods, which typically rely on mic…
Kinesin-driven de-mixing of cytoskeleton composites drives emergent mechanical properties
Janet Sheung, Christopher Gunter, Katarina Matic +5
The cytoskeleton is an active composite of filamentous proteins that dictates diverse mechanical properties and processes in eukaryotic cells by generating forces and autonomously…
Predicting System Dynamics of Universal Growth Patterns in Complex Systems
Leila Hedayatifar, Alfredo J. Morales, Dominic E. Saadi +8
Predicting dynamic behaviors is one of the goals of science in general as well as essential to many specific applications of human knowledge to real world systems. Here we introduc…
Casimir free energy for massive scalars: a comparative study of various approaches
M. Sasanpour, S. S. Gousheh
We compute the Casimir thermodynamic quantities for a massive real scalar field between two parallel plates with the Dirichlet boundary conditions, using three different general ap…
Motor antagonism dictates emergent dynamics in active double networks tuned by crosslinkers
Ryan J. McGorty, Christopher J. Currie, Jonathan Michel +8
The cytoskeleton relies on diverse populations of motors, filaments, and binding proteins acting in concert to enable non-equilibrium processes ranging from mitosis to chemotaxis.…