Inelastic mechanics of biopolymer networks and cells

I use an integrated approach of experiments, theory, and numerical evaluations to show that stiffening and softening/fluidization are natural consequences of the assumption that the cytoskeleton is mechanically essentially equivalent to a transiently crosslinked biopolymer network. I perform experim...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wolff, Lars
Other Authors: Universität Leipzig, Fakultät für Physik und Geowissenschaften
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig 2011
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Online Access:http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-78203
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-78203
http://www.qucosa.de/fileadmin/data/qucosa/documents/7820/inelastic_mechanics_of_biopolymer_networks_and_cells.pdf