3 papers
cond-mat.soft2026
Pinned Boundaries Delay Contraction and Shape Stress Relaxation in Active Gels
Aniket Marne, James Clarke, Aravind Rao +6
Cells dynamically generate, transmit, and dissipate stress. Central to these processes is the actomyosin cortex, an active contractile material that drives cellular mechanical beha…
cond-mat.soft2025
BARCODE: Biomaterial Activity Readouts to Categorize, Optimize, Design and Engineer for high throughput screening and characterization of dynamically restructuring soft materials
Qiaopeng Chen, Aditya Sriram, Ayan Das +8
Active, responsive, nonequilibrium materials, at the forefront of materials engineering, offer dynamical restructuring, mobility and other complex life-like properties. Yet, this e…
physics.bio-ph2025
Active and passive crosslinking of cytoskeleton scaffolds tune the effects of cell inclusions on composite structure
Katarina Matic, Nimisha Krishnan, Eric Frank +7
Incorporating cells within active biomaterial scaffolds is a promising strategy to develop forefront materials that can autonomously sense, respond, and alter the scaffold in respo…