3 papers
cond-mat.soft2026
Cooperative effect of local active stresses on the macroscopic contractility of elastic fiber networks
Abhinav Kumar, David A. Quint, Kinjal Dasbiswas
The collective action of actively contractile units embedded in elastic biopolymer networks plays a crucial role in regulating the network's macroscopic mechanical response. Here,…
cond-mat.soft2025
Gliding microtubules exhibit tunable collective rotation driven by chiral active forces
Madhuvanthi Guruprasad Athani, Nathan Prouse, Niranjan Sarpangala +11
How chirality propagates across scales remains an open question in many biological and synthetic systems. An especially clear manifestation of this propagation is found in in vitro…
cond-mat.soft2024
Elastic interactions compete with persistent cell motility to drive durotaxis
Subhaya Bose, Haiqin Wang, Xinpeng Xu +2
The directed migration of cells toward stiffer substrate regions or durotaxis is relevant to tissue development and tumor progression. Here, we introduce a phenomenological model f…