Tendril Perversion in Intrinsically Curved Rods.
A straight elastic rod with intrinsic curvature under varying tension can undergo an instability and bifurcate to a filament made out of two helices with opposite handedness. This inversion of handedness, known as perversion, appears in a wide range of biological and physical systems and is investig...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2002
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