6 papers
Origin of yield stress and mechanical plasticity in model biological tissues
Anh Q. Nguyen, Junxiang Huang, Dapeng Bi
During development and under normal physiological conditions, biological tissues are continuously subjected to substantial mechanical stresses. In response to large deformations ce…
Tunable Hyperuniformity and Hidden Information in Random Cellular Structures
Yiwen Tang, Mostafa Alkady, Xinzhi Li +1
Hyperuniform systems possess the isotropic microstructure of liquids while suppressing large-scale density fluctuations with crystal-like precision, endowing them with exotic optic…
Multicell-Fold: geometric learning in folding multicellular life
Haiqian Yang, Anh Q. Nguyen, Dapeng Bi +2
During developmental processes such as embryogenesis, how a group of cells fold into specific structures, is a central question in biology that defines how living organisms form. E…
A shape-driven reentrant jamming transition in confluent monolayers of synthetic cell-mimics
Pragya Arora, Souvik Sadhukhan, Saroj Kumar Nandi +3
Many critical biological processes, like wound healing, require confluent cell monolayers/bulk tissues to transition from a jammed solid-like to a fluid-like state. Although numeri…
Ductile-to-brittle transition and yielding in soft amorphous materials: perspectives and open questions
Thibaut Divoux, Elisabeth Agoritsas, Stefano Aime +37
Soft amorphous materials are viscoelastic solids ubiquitously found around us, from clays and cementitious pastes to emulsions and physical gels encountered in food or biomedical e…
Spatial Confinement Affects the Heterogeneity and Interactions Between Shoaling Fish
Gabriel Kuntz, Junxiang Huang, Mitchell Rask +4
Living objects are able to consume chemical energy and process information independently from others. However, living objects can coordinate to form ordered groups such as schools…