3 papers
cond-mat.soft2026
Design principles for energy dissipation in viscoelastic network metamaterials
Niranjan Sarpangala, Sean Fancher, Prashant K. Purohit +1
Mechanical energy dissipation in networked materials is relevant for applications from vibration isolation to impact protection, yet identifying optimal dissipative architectures i…
cond-mat.soft2025
Gliding microtubules exhibit tunable collective rotation driven by chiral active forces
Madhuvanthi Guruprasad Athani, Nathan Prouse, Niranjan Sarpangala +11
How chirality propagates across scales remains an open question in many biological and synthetic systems. An especially clear manifestation of this propagation is found in in vitro…
physics.bio-ph2023
Effects of Cytoskeletal Network Mesh Size on Cargo Transport
Nimisha Krishnan, Niranjan Sarpangala, Maria Gamez +2
Intracellular transport of cargoes in the cell is essential for the organization and functioning cells, especially those that are large and elongated. The cytoskeletal networks ins…