3 papers
physics.bio-ph2026
Spontaneous polarization for protrusion-driven cell crawling
Pierre Recho
We propose a minimal one-dimensional continuum model for the spontaneous initiation of protrusion-driven cell crawling on a rigid substrate. The cell cytoskeleton is represented as…
cond-mat.soft2024
Mechanics and thermodynamics of contractile entropic biopolymer networks
Antoine Jallon, Pierre Recho, Jocelyn Ãtienne
Contractile biopolymer networks, such as the actomyosin meshwork of animal cells, are ubiquitous in living organisms. The active gel theory, which provides the thermodynamic framew…
cond-mat.soft2024
Optimal crawling: from mechanical to chemical actuation
Pierre Recho, Lev Truskinovsky
Taking inspiration from the crawling motion of biological cells on a substrate, we consider a physical model of self-propulsion where the spatio-temporal driving can involve both,…