Exciting advancements have been made in the field of flexible electronic devices in the last
two decades and will certainly lead to a revolution in peoples' lives in the future. However …

It has long been recognized that biofilms are viscoelastic materials, however the importance
of this attribute to the survival and persistence of these microbial communities is yet to be …

How do growing bacterial colonies get their shapes? While colony morphogenesis is well
studied in two dimensions, many bacteria grow as large colonies in three-dimensional (3D) …

The physical interactions of growing bacterial cells with each other and with their
surroundings significantly affect the structure and dynamics of biofilms. Here a 3D agent …

Biofilms, bacterial communities of cells encased by a self-produced matrix, exhibit a variety
of three-dimensional structures. Specifically, channel networks formed within the bulk of the …

Bacterial biofilms correspond to surface-associated bacterial communities embedded in
hydrogel-like matrix, in which high cell density, reduced diffusion and physico-chemical …

Mechanical instability has been shown to play an important role in the formation of wrinkle
structures in biofilms, which not only can adopt instability modes as templates to regulate …

Growing bacterial biofilms exhibit a number of surface morphologies, eg, concentric
wrinkles, radial ridges, and labyrinthine networks, depending on their physiological status …

Biofilm morphogenesis not only reflects the physiological state of bacteria but also serves as
a strategy to sustain bacterial survival. In this paper, we take the Bacillus subtilis colony as a …

Abstract The 'Microbial Cities' vision of bacterial biofilms has dominated our understanding
of the development and functioning of bacterial aggregations for the past 20 years, during …