Maximally stiffening composites require maximally coupled rather than maximally entangled polymer species
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We couple Molecular Dynamics simulations with optical tweezers microrheology to discover that DNA–actin composites display maximal stiffening when the two species have similar number of entanglements and not when entanglements are maximized.
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