PREPRINTS:
CP Broedersz, M Sheinman and FC MacKintosh
Length-controlled elasticity in 3D fiber networks
arXiv:1108.4354.
M Sheinman, CP Broedersz and FC MacKintosh
Nonlinear effective medium theory of disordered spring networks
arXiv:1108.3981
NY Yao, CP Broedersz, M Depken, D Becker, MR Pollak, FC MacKintosh, DA Weitz
Stress-enhanced Gelation: A Dynamic Nonlinearity of Elasticity
preprint.
J Liu, KE Kasza, GH Koenderink, D Vader, CP Broedersz, FC MacKintosh, DA Weitz
Microscopic origins of nonlinear elasticity of biopolymer networks
preprint.
PUBLICATIONS:
Broedersz, C.P. & MacKintosh, F.C. (2011)Molecular motors stiffen non-affine semiflexible polymer networks
Soft Materials, 7(7), 3186-3191.
CP Broedersz, X Mao, TC Lubensky, FC MacKintosh
Criticality and isostaticity in fiber networks
Nature Physics, 7: 983 (2011)
Cate, M.E., MacKintosh, F.C.
Active soft matter
Soft Matter, 7(7), 3050-3051.
M. Das, F.C. MacKintosh
Mechanics of soft composites of rods in elastic gels
Phys Rev E, 84: 061906 (2011)
N Fakri, Enderlein J, Pasquali M, MacKintosh FC, Schmidt CF
Carbon nanotubes as mechanical probes of equilibrium and non-equilibrium cytoskeletal networks
European Biophysics Journal with Biophysics Letters, 40(1), 159
Control of non-linear elasticity in Factin networks with microtubules
Soft Matter, 7(3), 902-906.
MacKintosh, F.C.
ACTIVE GELS Motors keep dynamics steady
Nature Materials, 10(6), 414-415.
MacKintosh, F.C.
Active soft matter
Soft Matter, 7(7), 3050-3051
Active multistage coarsening of actin networks driven by myosin motors
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108(23), 9408-9413.
NY Yao, D Becker, CP Broedersz, M Depken, MR Pollak, FC MacKintosh, DA Weitz
Nonlinear Viscoelasticity of Actin Transiently Cross-linked with Mutant α-Actinin-4
J Molecular Biology, 411: 1062 (2011).