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Cell spheroid viscoelasticity is deformation-dependent
Ruben C. Boot, Anouk van der Net, Christos Gogou +4
Tissue surface tension influences cell sorting and tissue fusion. Earlier mechanical studies suggest that multicellular spheroids actively reinforce their surface tension with appl…
Effects of local incompressibility on the rheology of composite biopolymer networks
Anupama Gannavarapu, Sadjad Arzash, Iain Muntz +4
Fibrous networks such as collagen are common in biological systems. Recent theoretical and experimental efforts have shed light on the mechanics of single component networks. Most…
Capillary Thinning of Elastic and Viscoelastic Threads: from Elastocapillarity to Phase Separation
H. V. M. Kibbelaar, A. Deblais, F. Burla +3
The formation and destabilisation of viscoelastic filaments are of importance in many industrial and biological processes. Filament instabilities have been observed for viscoelasti…
Poroelasticity of (bio)polymer networks during compression: theory and experiment
Melle T. J. J. M. Punter, Bart E. Vos, Bela M. Mulder +1
Soft living tissues like cartilage can be considered as biphasic materials comprised of a fibrous complex biopolymer network and a viscous background liquid. Here, we show by a com…
Uncovering the dynamic precursors to motor-driven contraction of active gels
Jose Alvarado, Luca Cipelletti, Gijsje Koenderink
Cells and tissues have the remarkable ability to actively generate the forces required to change their shape. This active mechanical behavior is largely mediated by the actin cytos…
Origin of slow stress relaxation in the cytoskeleton
Yuval Mulla, F. C. MacKintosh, Gijsje H. Koenderink
Dynamically crosslinked semiflexible biopolymers such as the actin cytoskeleton govern the mechanical behavior of living cells. Semiflexible biopolymers nonlinearly stiffen in resp…