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Linear and Nonlinear Rheology of Living Cells
2011
Annual review of materials research (Print)
Living cells are an active soft material with fascinating mechanical properties. Under mechanical loading, cells exhibit creep and stress relaxation behavior that follows a power-law response rather than a classical exponential response. Such a response puts cells in the context of soft colloidal glasses and other disordered metastable materials that share the same properties. In cells, however, both the power-law exponent and stiffness are related to the contractile prestress in the
doi:10.1146/annurev-matsci-062910-100351
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