Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are heavily employed in the field of soft robotics because they exhibit the such programmable reversible shape changing and anisotropic mechanical response. But new ...

Although many ion channels are implicated in mechanosensation, it is hard to be sure that such channels are directly gated by mechanical force. Criteria that help to establish direct gating include ...

Although Eq. 1 may be relevant also for more complex types of wrinkle patterns [e.g., under biaxial compression (20) or depressurizing a shell with a stiff core (21)], confinement of sheets in the ...