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20192026
most citedStructuring Stress for Active Materials Control

142 citations · 261 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

q-bio.BM2026

The fitness landscape of overlapping genes

Orson Kirsch, Nicole Wood, Steven A Redford +1

Natural genomes sometimes encode two different proteins in staggered reading frames of the same DNA sequence. Despite the prevalence of these 'overlapping genes' across the tree of…

cond-mat.soft2023★ 14 cited

Motor crosslinking augments elasticity in active nematics

Steven A. Redford, Jonathan Colen, Jordan L. Shivers +8

In active materials, uncoordinated internal stresses lead to emergent long-range flows. An understanding of how the behavior of active materials depends on mesoscopic (hydrodynamic…

cond-mat.soft2023

Measuring response functions of active materials from data

Mehdi Molaei, Steven A. Redford, Wen-hung Chou +4

From flocks of birds to biomolecular assemblies, systems in which many individual components independently consume energy to perform mechanical work exhibit a wide array of strikin…

cond-mat.soft2022★ 11 cited

Catapulting of topological defects through elasticity bands in active nematics

Nitin Kumar, Rui Zhang, Steven A. Redford +2

Active materials are those in which individual, uncoordinated local stresses drive the material out of equilibrium on a global scale. Examples of such assemblies can be seen across…

cond-mat.soft2020★ 94 cited

Machine learning active-nematic hydrodynamics

Jonathan Colen, Ming Han, Rui Zhang +10

Hydrodynamic theories effectively describe many-body systems out of equilibrium in terms of a few macroscopic parameters. However, such hydrodynamic parameters are difficult to der…

cond-mat.soft2019★ 142 cited

Structuring Stress for Active Materials Control

Rui Zhang, Steven A. Redford, Paul V. Ruijgrok +8

Active materials are capable of converting free energy into mechanical work to produce autonomous motion, and exhibit striking collective dynamics that biology relies on for essent…