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 …

The cells and tissues that make up our body manage contradictory mechanical demands. It
is crucial for their survival to be able to withstand large mechanical loads, but it is equally …

Sperm motility is crucial to reproductive success in sexually reproducing organisms.
Impaired sperm movement causes male infertility, which is increasing globally. Sperm are …

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

Motile cilia are molecular machines used by a myriad of eukaryotic cells to swim through
fluid environments. However, available molecular structures represent only a handful of cell …

Microtubules are self-assembling biological nanotubes that are essential for cell motility, cell
division and intracellular trafficking. Microtubules have outstanding mechanical properties …

Voronoi tessellations have been used to model the geometric arrangement of cells in
morphogenetic or cancerous tissues, however, so far only with flat hyper-surfaces as cell …

Microtubules (MTs) have been proposed to act mechanically as compressive struts that
resist both actomyosin contractile forces and their own polymerization forces to mechanically …

Based on the nonlocal elastic theory, small scale effects are considered in the investigation
of the mechanical properties of protein microtubules. A new prediction formula for the …

We give an extended review of recent numerical and analytical studies on semiflexible
chains near surfaces undertaken at Institut Charles Sadron (sometimes in collaboration) with …