2 papers
physics.bio-ph2026
Biomedical active matter: Emergence and breakdown of collective functionalities
Arnold Mathijssen, Hamed Almohammadi, Lauren Altman +13
Living systems are made of active materials with microscopic components that work together to perform macroscopic biological tasks. The breakdown of these collective functionalitie…
cond-mat.soft2025
Collective Behavior and Memory States in Flow Networks with Tunable Bistability
Lauren E. Altman, Nadia Aguilar, Douglas J. Durian +2
Multistability-induced hysteresis has been widely studied in mechanical systems, but such behavior has proven more difficult to reproduce experimentally in flow networks. Natural f…