scholarly journals Maximally stiffening composites require maximally coupled rather than maximally entangled polymer species

Soft Matter ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (33) ◽  
pp. 6703-6717 ◽  
Author(s):  
Davide Michieletto ◽  
Robert Fitzpatrick ◽  
Rae M. Robertson-Anderson

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.

PLoS ONE ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (11) ◽  
pp. e0222468
Author(s):  
Nathalie Casanova-Morales ◽  
Nataniel L. Figueroa ◽  
Karol Alfaro ◽  
Felipe Montenegro ◽  
Nelson P. Barrera ◽  
...  

2010 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolin Wagner ◽  
Carsten Olbrich ◽  
Hergen Brutzer ◽  
Mathias Salomo ◽  
Ulrich Kleinekathöfer ◽  
...  

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