activity
20172025
most citedOptical tweezers microrheology maps the dynamics of strain-induced local inhomogeneities in entangled polymers

34 citations · 35 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cond-mat.soft2025

BARCODE: Biomaterial Activity Readouts to Categorize, Optimize, Design and Engineer for high throughput screening and characterization of dynamically restructuring soft materials

Qiaopeng Chen, Aditya Sriram, Ayan Das +8

Active, responsive, nonequilibrium materials, at the forefront of materials engineering, offer dynamical restructuring, mobility and other complex life-like properties. Yet, this e…

physics.bio-ph2025

Active and passive crosslinking of cytoskeleton scaffolds tune the effects of cell inclusions on composite structure

Katarina Matic, Nimisha Krishnan, Eric Frank +7

Incorporating cells within active biomaterial scaffolds is a promising strategy to develop forefront materials that can autonomously sense, respond, and alter the scaffold in respo…

cond-mat.soft2025

Kinesin-driven de-mixing of cytoskeleton composites drives emergent mechanical properties

Janet Sheung, Christopher Gunter, Katarina Matic +5

The cytoskeleton is an active composite of filamentous proteins that dictates diverse mechanical properties and processes in eukaryotic cells by generating forces and autonomously…

cond-mat.soft2024

DNA transport is topologically sculpted by active microtubule dynamics

Dylan P. McCuskey, Raisa E. Achiriloaie, Claire Benjamin +6

The transport of macromolecules, such as DNA, through the cytoskeleton is critical to wide-ranging cellular processes from cytoplasmic streaming to transcription. The rigidity and…

cond-mat.soft20221 cited

Motor-driven advection competes with crowding to drive spatiotemporally heterogeneous transport in cytoskeleton composites

Janet Y Sheung, Jonathan Garamella, Stella K Kahl +3

The cytoskeleton -- a composite network of biopolymers, molecular motors, and associated binding proteins -- is a paradigmatic example of active matter. Particle transport through…

cond-mat.soft2021

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…