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Towards the cellular-scale simulation of motor-driven cytoskeletal assemblies
Wen Yan, Saad Ansari, Adam Lamson +3
The cytoskeleton -- a collection of polymeric filaments, molecular motors, and crosslinkers -- is a foundational example of active matter, and in the cell assembles into organelles…
A multiscale biophysical model gives quantized metachronal waves in a lattice of cilia
Brato Chakrabarti, Sebastian Fürthauer, Michael J. Shelley
Motile cilia are slender, hair-like cellular appendages that spontaneously oscillate under the action of internal molecular motors and are typically found in dense arrays. These ac…
How crosslink numbers shape the large-scale physics of cytoskeletal materials
Sebastian Fürthauer, Michael J. Shelley
Cytoskeletal networks are the main actuators of cellular mechanics, and a foundational example for active matter physics. In cytoskeletal networks, motion is generated on small sca…
A fast Chebyshev method for the Bingham closure with application to active nematic suspensions
Scott Weady, Michael J. Shelley, David B. Stein
Continuum kinetic theories provide an important tool for the analysis and simulation of particle suspensions. When those particles are anisotropic, the addition of a particle orien…
Hyperuniformity and phase enrichment in vortex and rotor assemblies
Naomi Oppenheimer, David B. Stein, Matan Yah Ben Zion +1
Ensembles of particles rotating in a two-dimensional fluid can exhibit chaotic dynamics yet develop signatures of hidden order. Such "rotors" are found in the natural world spannin…
Motile dislocations knead odd crystals into whorls
Ephraim S. Bililign, Florencio Balboa Usabiaga, Yehuda A. Ganan +6
The competition between thermal fluctuations and potential forces is the foundation of our understanding of phase transitions and matter in equilibrium. Driving matter out of equil…