Hydrogels are highly water-swollen molecular networks that are ideal platforms to create
tissue mimetics owing to their vast and tunable properties. As such, hydrogels are promising …

Advances in the field of supramolecular chemistry have made it possible, in many situations,
to reliably engineer soft materials to address a specific technological problem. Particularly …

From the cell cytoskeleton to connective tissues, fibrous networks are ubiquitous in
metazoan life as the key promoters of mechanical strength, support and integrity. In recent …

The conformational properties of flexible and semiflexible polymers exposed to active noise
are studied theoretically. The noise may originate from the interaction of the polymer with …

The cytoskeleton is generally visualized by light or electron microscopy as a meshwork of
protein filaments that spans the space between the nuclear envelope and the plasma …

Microtubule bundles cross-linked by tau protein serve a variety of neurological functions
including maintaining mechanical integrity of the axon, promoting axonal growth, and …

This paper presents a non-affine homogenization scheme for materials with a random
network microstructure. It is based on a newly developed kinematic constraint that links the …

We briefly review the recent developments in the theory of individual semiflexible filaments,
and of a crosslinked network of such filaments, both permanent and transient. Starting from …

Existing axonal finite element models do not consider sex morphological differences or the
fidelity in dynamic input. To facilitate a systematic investigation into the micromechanics of …

We develop a continuum theory for equilibrium elasticity of a network of crosslinked
semiflexible filaments, spanning the full range between flexible entropy-driven chains to stiff …