In living organisms, diffusing chemicals react with soft tissue to actuate a range of
mechanical actions, such as periodic pulsations or net motion. Inspired by this biological …

Proteins control many vital functions in living cells, such as cell growth and cell division.
Reliable coordination of these functions requires the spatial and temporal organization of …

Morphogenesis of active shells such as cells is a fundamental chemomechanical process
that often exhibits three-dimensional (3D) large deformations and chemical pattern …

We present a generic framework for modeling three-dimensional deformable shells of active
matter that captures the orientational dynamics of the active particles and hydrodynamic …

In active matter systems, deformable boundaries provide a mechanism to organize internal
active stresses. To study a minimal model of such a system, we perform particle-based …

Patterns and morphology develop in living systems such as embryos in response to
chemical signals. To understand and exploit the interplay of chemical reactions with …

Odd elasticity describes active elastic systems whose stress-strain relationship is not
compatible with a potential energy. As the requirement of energy conservation is lifted from …

We introduce a fast direct solver for variable-coefficient elliptic PDEs on surfaces based on
the hierarchical Poincaré–Steklov method. The method takes as input an unstructured, high …

While living organisms have mastered the dynamic control of residual stresses within sheets
to induce shape transformation and locomotion, man-made implementations are …

We review progress in active hydrodynamic descriptions of flowing media on curved and
deformable manifolds: the state-of-the-art in continuum descriptions of single-layers of …