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Spontaneous crumpling of active spherical shells
M. C. Gandikota, Shibananda Das, A. Cacciuto
The existence of a crumpled phase for self-avoiding elastic surfaces was postulated more than three decades ago using simple Flory-like scaling arguments. Despite much effort, its…
The crumpling transition of active tethered membranes
M. C. Gandikota, A. Cacciuto
We perform numerical simulations of active ideal and self-avoiding tethered membranes. Passive ideal membranes with bending interactions are known to exhibit a continuous crumpling…
Rectification of Confined Soft Vesicles Containing Active Particles
M. C. Gandikota, A. Cacciuto
One of the most promising features of active systems is that they can extract energy from their environment and convert it to mechanical work. Self propelled particles enable recti…
Rigidity transitions in zero-temperature polygons
M. C. Gandikota, Amanda Parker, J. M. Schwarz
We study geometrical clues of a rigidity transition due to the emergence of a system-spanning state of self stress in under-constrained systems of individual polygons and spring ne…
Effective forces between active polymers
M. C. Gandikota, A. Cacciuto
The characterization of the interactions between two fully flexible self-avoiding polymers is one of the classic and most important problems in polymer physics. In this paper we me…
Buckling without bending morphogenesis: Nonlinearities, spatial confinement, and branching hierarchies
M. C. Gandikota, J. M. Schwarz
During morphogenesis, a featureless convex cerebellum develops folds. As it does so, the cortex thickness is thinnest at the crest (gyri) and thickest at the trough (sulci) of the…