Inherently unstable networks collapse to a critical point
Nonequilibrium systems that are driven or drive themselves towards a critical point have been studied for almost three decades. Here we present a minimalist example of such a system, motivated by experiments on collapsing active elastic networks. Our model of an unstable elastic network exhibits a c...
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| author | Sheinman, M. Sharma, A. Koenderink, G. H. MacKintosh, F. C. Alvarado, Jose Ramon |
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| description | Nonequilibrium systems that are driven or drive themselves towards a critical point have been studied for almost three decades. Here we present a minimalist example of such a system, motivated by experiments on collapsing active elastic networks. Our model of an unstable elastic network exhibits a collapse towards a critical point from any macroscopically connected initial configuration. Taking into account steric interactions within the network, the model qualitatively and quantitatively reproduces results of the experiments on collapsing active gels. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/977132022-09-30T21:49:46Z Inherently unstable networks collapse to a critical point Sheinman, M. Sharma, A. Koenderink, G. H. MacKintosh, F. C. Alvarado, Jose Ramon Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Hatsopoulos Microfluids Laboratory Alvarado, Jose Nonequilibrium systems that are driven or drive themselves towards a critical point have been studied for almost three decades. Here we present a minimalist example of such a system, motivated by experiments on collapsing active elastic networks. Our model of an unstable elastic network exhibits a collapse towards a critical point from any macroscopically connected initial configuration. Taking into account steric interactions within the network, the model qualitatively and quantitatively reproduces results of the experiments on collapsing active gels. NWO of the Netherlands (Vidi Grant) 2015-07-09T13:54:03Z 2015-07-09T13:54:03Z 2015-07 2015-04 2015-07-08T22:00:04Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1539-3755 1550-2376 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/97713 Sheinman, M., A. Sharma, J. Alvarado, G. H. Koenderink, and F. C. MacKintosh. "Inherently unstable networks collapse to a critical point." Phys. Rev. E 92, 012710 (July 2015). © 2015 American Physical Society https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7245-6435 en http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.92.012710 Physical Review E Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. American Physical Society application/pdf American Physical Society American Physical Society |
| spellingShingle | Sheinman, M. Sharma, A. Koenderink, G. H. MacKintosh, F. C. Alvarado, Jose Ramon Inherently unstable networks collapse to a critical point |
| title | Inherently unstable networks collapse to a critical point |
| title_full | Inherently unstable networks collapse to a critical point |
| title_fullStr | Inherently unstable networks collapse to a critical point |
| title_full_unstemmed | Inherently unstable networks collapse to a critical point |
| title_short | Inherently unstable networks collapse to a critical point |
| title_sort | inherently unstable networks collapse to a critical point |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/97713 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7245-6435 |
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