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Entanglement in living systems
Thomas C. Day, S. Alireza Zamani-Dahaj, G. Ozan Bozdag +5
Many organisms exhibit branching morphologies that twist around each other and become entangled. Entanglement occurs when different objects interlock, creating complex and often ir…
Cellular organization in lab-evolved and extant multicellular species obeys a maximum entropy law
Thomas C. Day, Stephanie S. Hohn, Seyed A. Zamani-Dahaj +9
The prevalence of multicellular organisms is due in part to their ability to form complex structures. How cells pack in these structures is a fundamental biophysical issue, underly…
Structural disorder on small scales softens hierarchical structures
Jonathan Michel, Peter J. Yunker
Hierarchically structured materials, which possess distinct features on different length scales, are ubiquitous in nature and engineering. In many cases, one structural level may b…
Cyber-physical risks of hacked Internet-connected vehicles
Skanda Vivek, David Yanni, Peter J. Yunker +1
The integration of automotive technology with Internet-connectivity promises to both dramatically improve transportation, while simultaneously introducing the potential for new unk…
Viscosity independent diffusion mediated by death and reproduction in biofilms
Arben Kalziqi, Siu Lung Ng, David Yanni +3
Bacterial biofilms, surface-attached communities of cells, are in some respects similar to colloidal solids; both are densely packed with non-zero yield stresses. However, unlike n…
Structural hierarchy confers error tolerance in biological tissues
Jonathan Michel, Peter Yunker
Structural hierarchy, in which materials possess distinct features on multiple length scales, is ubiquitous in nature; diverse biological materials, such as bone, cellulose, and mu…