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 …

We review continuum elastic models for the transmission of both external forces and internal
active cellular forces in biopolymer gels, and relate them to recent experiments. Rather than …

Semiflexible polymers subject to hydrodynamic forcing play an important role in cytoskeletal
motions in the cell, particularly when filaments guide molecular motors whose motions …

The buckling of thin elastic sheets is a classic mechanical instability that occurs over a wide
range of scales. In the extreme limit of atomically thin membranes like graphene, thermal …

Arguments are put forward that mean inextensibility is a valid approximation for semiflexible
filaments. Using mean inextensibility, a simple analytical expression for the free energy for …

We employ molecular dynamics simulations to investigate the shock compression of linear
semiflexible polymers. While the propagation velocity of a shock primarily depends on …

The conformations of semiflexible (bio) polymers are studied in flow-through geometrically
structured microchannels. Using mesoscale hydrodynamics simulations, we show that the …

The bending stiffness of double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) at high curvatures is fundamental to
its biological activity, yet this regime has been difficult to probe experimentally, and literature …

An analytical expression for the fluctuation-rounded stretch-coil transition of semiflexible
polymers in extensional flows is derived. The competition between elasticity and tension is …

A model for filament buckling at finite temperatures is presented. Starting from the classical
worm-like chain model under constant compression, we use a mean-field approach for …