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cond-mat.soft2024
Mechanics and wrinkling patterns of pressurized bent tubes
Cesar L. Pastrana, Luyi Qiu, John W. Hutchinson +2
Take a drinking straw and bend it from its ends. After sufficient bending, the tube buckles forming a kink, where the curvature is localized in a very small area. This instability,…
cond-mat.soft2022★ 3 cited
Pressure-induced Shape-shifting of Helical Bacteria
Cesar L. Pastrana, Luyi Qiu, Shahaf Armon +2
Many bacterial species are helical in form, including the widespread pathogen H. pylori. Motivated by recent experiments on H. pylori showing that cell wall synthesis is not unifor…