435 citations · 461 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for
3 papers
physics.bio-ph2015★ 435 cited
Gyrification from constrained cortical expansion
Tuomas Tallinen, Jun Young Chung, John S. Biggins +1
The exterior of the mammalian brain - the cerebral cortex - has a conserved layered structure whose thickness varies little across species. However, selection pressures over evolut…
cond-mat.mtrl-sci2011★ 18 cited
Forced tearing of ductile and brittle thin sheets
T. Tallinen, L. Mahadevan
Tearing a thin sheet by forcing a rigid object through it leads to complex crack morphologies; a single oscillatory crack arises when a tool is driven laterally through a brittle s…
cond-mat.soft2011★ 8 cited
Dynamic instability of a growing adsorbed polymorphic filament
Stefano Zapperi, L. Mahadevan
The intermittent transition between slow growth and rapid shrinkage in polymeric assemblies is termed dynamic instability, a feature observed in a variety of biochemically distinct…