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Bending stiff charged polymers: the electrostatic persistence length
E. Trizac, T. Shen
Many charged polymers, including nucleic acids, are locally stiff. Their bending rigidity -- quantified by the persistence length --, depends crucially on Coulombic features, such…
The Interplay of Nonlinearity and Architecture in Equilibrium Cytoskeletal Mechanics
Shenshen Wang, Tongye Shen, Peter G. Wolynes
The interplay between cytoskeletal architecture and the nonlinearity of the interactions due to bucklable filaments plays a key role in modulating the cell's mechanical stability a…
Statistical Mechanics of a Cat's Cradle
Tongye Shen, Peter G. Wolynes
It is believed that, much like a cat's cradle, the cytoskeleton can be thought of as a network of strings under tension. We show that both regular and random bond-disordered networ…
Stability and Dynamics of Crystals and Glasses of Motorized Particles
Tongye Shen, Peter G. Wolynes
Many of the large structures of the cell, such as the cytoskeleton, are assembled and maintained far from equilibrium. We study the stabilities of various structures for a simple m…