Recently, the study of long, slender living worms has gained attention due to their unique
ability to form highly entangled physical structures, exhibiting emergent behaviors. These …

Incorporation of polymer chain entanglements within a single network can synergistically
improve stiffness and toughness, yet attaining such dense entanglements through vat …

Motility coupled to responsive behavior is essential for many microorganisms to seek and
establish appropriate habitats. One of the simplest possible responses, reversing the …

In the present work, we study, by means of numerical simulations, the structural and
dynamical behavior of a suspension of active ring polymers in bulk and under lateral …

Some animals form transient, responsive and solid-like ensembles through dynamic
structural interactions. These ensembles demonstrate emergent responses such as …

We perform numerical simulations of isolated, partially active polymers, driven out-of-
equilibrium by a fraction of their monomers. We show that, if the active beads are all …

We present an in-depth multiscale analysis of the conformations and dynamics of polar
active polymers, comparing very dilute and very dense conditions. We unveil characteristic …

Natural organisms have evolved sophisticated and multiscale hierarchical structures over
time to enable survival. Currently, bionic design is revolutionizing drug delivery systems …

While early multicellular lineages necessarily started out as relatively simple groups of cells,
little is known about how they became Darwinian entities capable of sustained multicellular …

Many organisms exhibit branching morphologies that twist around each other and become
entangled. Entanglement occurs when different objects interlock with each other, creating …