This is an overview of theoretical approaches to semiflexible polymers and their networks.
Such semiflexible polymers have large bending rigidities that can compete with the entropic …

Despite their overwhelming complexity, living cells display a high degree of internal
mechanical and functional organization which can largely be attributed to the intracellular …

Thermoelectric (TE) materials are significant for sustainable development because they can
be used to directly harvest heat into electricity. Recently, ionic TE materials emerged as very …

Fibrin gels are responsible for the mechanical strength of blood clots, which are among the
most resilient protein materials in nature. Here we investigate the physical origin of this …

The actin cytoskeleton, a network of protein-polymers, is responsible for the mechanical
stability of cells. This biopolymer network is also crucial for processes that require spatial …

We quantitatively compare data obtained from imaging two-dimensional slices of three-
dimensional unlabeled and fluorescently labeled collagen gels with confocal reflectance …

We show that DNA-based self-assembly can serve as a general and flexible tool to construct
artificial flagella of several micrometers in length and only tens of nanometers in diameter …

Many biomaterials formed by cross-linked semiflexible or rigid filaments exhibit nonlinear
rheology in the form of strain-stiffening and negative normal stress when samples are …

Spontaneous growth of long-wavelength deformations is a defining feature of active liquid
crystals. We investigate the effect of confinement on the instability of 3D active liquid crystals …

Self-assembly is one of the most promising strategies for making functional materials at the
nanoscale, yet new design principles for making self-limiting architectures, rather than …