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Timed material self-assembly controlled by circadian clock proteins
Gregor Leech, Lauren Melcher, Michelle Chiu +10
Active biological molecules present a powerful, yet largely untapped, opportunity to impart autonomous regulation to materials. Because these systems can function robustly to regul…
Reentrant Rigidity Percolation in Structurally Correlated Filamentous Networks
Jonathan Michel, Gabriel von Kessel, Thomas Wyse Jackson +3
Many biological tissues feature a heterogeneous network of fibers whose tensile and bending rigidity contribute substantially to these tissues' elastic properties. Rigidity percola…
Sustained Order-Disorder Transitions in a Model Colloidal System Driven by Rhythmic Crosslinking
Lauren Melcher, Elisabeth Rennert, Jennifer Ross +3
Biological systems have the unique ability to self-organize and generate autonomous motion and work. Motivated by this, we investigate a 2D model colloidal network that can repeate…
Active restructuring of cytoskeleton composites leads to increased mechanical stiffness, memory, and heterogeneity
Janet Y. Sheung, Daisy H. Achiriloaie, Karthik Peddireddy +5
The composite cytoskeleton, comprising interacting networks of semiflexible actin and rigid microtubules, actively generates forces and restructures using motor proteins such as my…
Active Cytoskeletal Composites Display Emergent Tunable Contractility and Restructuring
Gloria Lee, Gregor Leech, Pancy Lwin +7
The cytoskeleton is a model active matter system that controls diverse cellular processes from division to motility. While both active actomyosin dynamics and actin-microtubule int…
Rigidity and fracture of fibrous double networks
Pancy Lwin, Andrew Sindermann, Leo Sutter +4
Tunable mechanics and fracture resistance are hallmarks of biological tissues and highly desired in engineered materials. To elucidate the underlying mechanisms, we study a rigidly…