Advanced materials with heterogeneous microstructures enable superior properties
unattainable in conventional materials. Challenges remain in predictive design, requiring …

Biofilms are aggregates of bacterial cells surrounded by an extracellular matrix. Much
progress has been made in studying biofilm growth on solid substrates; however, little is …

Tissues grow and remodel in response to mechanical cues, extracellular and intracellular
signals experienced through various biological events, from the developing embryo to …

Active nematics are the non-equilibrium analogue of passive liquid crystals. They consist of
anisotropic units that consume free energy to drive emergent behaviour. As with liquid …

The functioning of natural and engineered porous media, like soils and filters, depends in
many cases on the interplay between biochemical processes and hydrodynamics. In such …

There is significant interest in modeling the mechanics and physics of growth of soft
biological systems such as tumors and bacterial biofilms. Solid tumors account for more than …

A wide variety of photo-cured materials have recently been developed with the rapid
advancement of three-dimensional (3D) printing technology. However, most of these …

Frontal polymerization is a promising energy-saving method for rapid fabrication of polymer
components with good mechanical properties. In these systems, a small energy input is …

In this study, we propose a self-limiting growth model for Bacillus subtilis spores confined
within porous polyacrylamide (PA) hydrogels. We observed that B. subtilis spores germinate …

The electrochemical growth of Au nanowires in a template of nanoporous anodic aluminum
oxide was investigated in situ by means of grazing-incidence transmission small-and wide …