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Optimal crawling: from mechanical to chemical actuation
Pierre Recho, Lev Truskinovsky
Taking inspiration from the crawling motion of biological cells on a substrate, we consider a physical model of self-propulsion where the spatio-temporal driving can involve both,…
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Mechanics and thermodynamics of contractile entropic biopolymer networks
Antoine Jallon, Pierre Recho, Jocelyn Étienne
Contractile biopolymer networks, such as the actomyosin meshwork of animal cells, are ubiquitous in living organisms. The active gel theory, which provides the thermodynamic framew…