Soft and hard materials at interfaces exhibit mismatched behaviors, such as mismatched
chemical or biochemical reactivity, mechanical response, and environmental adaptability …

A fundamental understanding of cell shaping with confined flexible filaments, including
microtubules, actin filaments, and engineered nanotubes, has been limited by the complex …

The intricate mechanical interplay between cell membranes and enclosed filaments or
filament networks plays an essential role in governing cellular morphological …

Confinement scenarios of thin elastic rods are prevalent in both natural and engineered
systems. The accurate quantification of the mechanical interplay between confined rods and …

Mechanical insight into the packing of slender objects within confinement is essential for
understanding how polymers, filaments, or wires organize and rearrange in limited space …

Protrusion induced by cylindrical tubes against cell membranes plays essential roles in
numerous biological processes, including filopodia growth, cellular packing or entry of one …

We systematically explore the self-assembly of semi-flexible polymers in deformable
spherical confinement across a wide regime of chain stiffness, contour lengths and packing …

An elastic rod is perfectly bonded to a von Kármán elastic plate such that, except for a
relative twist, no relative displacements are allowed between the rod and the plate. The …

To understand the mechanics of cellular/intracellular packing of one-dimensional
nanomaterials, we performed theoretical analysis and molecular dynamics simulations to …

Due to their ability to self-assemble into complex structures, block copolymers are of great
interest for use in a wide range of future applications, such as self-healing materials …