Filament Nucleation Tunes Mechanical Memory in Active Polymer Networks
Yadav V, Banerjee D, Tabatabai A, Kovar D, Kim T, Banerjee S, Murrell M. Filament Nucleation Tunes Mechanical Memory in Active Polymer Networks. Advanced Functional Materials 2019, 29 PMID: 32523502, PMCID: PMC7286550, DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201905243.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchPolymer networksShape memoryIsotropic materialsActive materialMaterial designMaterial functionalityLow nucleationChemical timescalesMembrane surfaceNucleationMechanical memoryEnergyMaterialsCritical nucleationFilament curvatureInternal energyDissipationDense networkTopological defectsGrand challenge