Uncoupling shear and uniaxial elastic moduli of semiflexible biopolymer networks: Compression-softening and stretch-stiffening

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Van Oosten, Anne S G ^a   Vahabi, Mahsa ^b   Licup, Albert J ^b   Sharma, Abhinav ^b,c   Galie, Peter A ^a,d   MacKintosh, Fred C ^b   Janmey, Paul A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d Rowan University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOPOLYMER;

CHEMISTRY; ELASTICITY; FLOW KINETICS; MECHANICAL STRESS; PRESSURE; SHEAR STRENGTH; YOUNG MODULUS;

BIOPOLYMERS; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY; PRESSURE; RHEOLOGY; SHEAR STRENGTH; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 84954558096     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep19270     Document Type: Article

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