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List of works by Frederick C MacKintosh

A symmetrical method to obtain shear moduli from microrheology.

scientific article published on 3 April 2018

Actin filament length tunes elasticity of flexibly cross-linked actin networks.

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Active diffusion: the erratic dance of chromosomal loci.

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Active gels: motors keep dynamics steady

scientific article published on 01 June 2011

Active multistage coarsening of actin networks driven by myosin motors

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Anomalous discontinuity at the percolation critical point of active gels.

scientific article published on 4 March 2015

Bending dynamics of fluctuating biopolymers probed by automated high-resolution filament tracking

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Bio imaging of intracellular NO production in single bone cells after mechanical stimulation.

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Broken Detailed Balance of Filament Dynamics in Active Networks.

scientific article published on 17 June 2016

Broken detailed balance at mesoscopic scales in active biological systems.

scientific article published in April 2016

Brownian motion of stiff filaments in a crowded environment

scientific article published on 01 December 2010

Cofilin drives rapid turnover and fluidization of entangled F-actin

scientific article published on 12 June 2019

Competition between Bending and Internal Pressure Governs the Mechanics of Fluid Nanovesicles.

scientific article published on 08 March 2017

Critical behaviour in the nonlinear elastic response of hydrogels.

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Cytoplasmic diffusion: molecular motors mix it up

scientific article published on 10 November 2008

Cytoplasmic transport: bacteria turn to glass unless kicked

scientific article published in March 2014

Driven diffusive systems with mutually interactive Langmuir kinetics

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Elastic regimes of subisostatic athermal fiber networks

scientific article published on 14 January 2016

Elastic response of filamentous networks with compliant crosslinks.

scientific article published on 8 November 2013

Elastic response, buckling, and instability of microtubules under radial indentation

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Elasticity of fibrous networks under uniaxial prestress.

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Finite size effects in critical fiber networks

scientific article published on 08 July 2020

Fluctuation-stabilized marginal networks and anomalous entropic elasticity

scientific article published on 27 August 2013

Force percolation of contractile active gels

scientific article published on 01 August 2017

High-resolution mapping of intracellular fluctuations using carbon nanotubes

scientific article published in May 2014

Inherently unstable networks collapse to a critical point.

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Intracellular transport by active diffusion

scientific article published on 21 August 2009

Lipid organization and the morphology of solid-like domains in phase-separating binary lipid membranes

scientific article published on 25 July 2006

Molecular motors robustly drive active gels to a critically connected state

scientific article from 2013

Multi-scale strain-stiffening of semiflexible bundle networks

scientific article published on 13 January 2016

Negative normal stress in semiflexible biopolymer gels.

scientific article published on 24 December 2006

Nonequilibrium fluctuations of a remodeling in vitro cytoskeleton

scientific article published on 23 August 2012

Nonlinear Mechanics of Athermal Branched Biopolymer Networks

scientific article published on 04 March 2016

Nonlinear Poisson Effect Governed by a Mechanical Critical Transition

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Nonlinear elasticity in biological gels

scientific article published in Nature

Nonlinear viscoelasticity of actin transiently cross-linked with mutant α-actinin-4

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Nonthermal fluctuations of the mitotic spindle.

scientific article published in June 2015

Normal stress anisotropy and marginal stability in athermal elastic networks

scientific article from 2019

Normal stresses in semiflexible polymer hydrogels

scientific article published on 01 March 2018

On-site residence time in a driven diffusive system: Violation and recovery of a mean-field description.

scientific article published on 11 January 2016

Origin of Slow Stress Relaxation in the Cytoskeleton

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

Porosity Governs Normal Stresses in Polymer Gels.

scientific article published on 18 November 2016

Probing the stochastic, motor-driven properties of the cytoplasm using force spectrum microscopy.

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Programming the mechanics of cohesive fiber networks by compression.

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Reply to the 'Comment on "A symmetrical method to obtain shear moduli from microrheology"' by M. Tassieri, Soft Matter, 2018, 14, DOI

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

Scaling Theory for Mechanical Critical Behavior in Fiber Networks

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

Self-organized stress patterns drive state transitions in actin cortices.

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Sheinman, Sharma, and MacKintosh Reply.

scientific article published on 5 May 2016

Stability and anomalous entropic elasticity of subisostatic random-bond networks

scientific article published on 22 October 2015

Strain-driven criticality underlies nonlinear mechanics of fibrous networks.

scientific article published on 11 October 2016

Stress relaxation in F-actin solutions by severing

scientific article published on 25 July 2019

Stress-enhanced gelation: a dynamic nonlinearity of elasticity.

scientific article published on 3 January 2013

Stress-stabilized subisostatic fiber networks in a ropelike limit

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

The role of network architecture in collagen mechanics

scientific article from 2018

The role of the cytoskeleton in sensing changes in gravity by nonspecialized cells

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Ultra-responsive soft matter from strain-stiffening hydrogels.

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Uncoupling shear and uniaxial elastic moduli of semiflexible biopolymer networks: compression-softening and stretch-stiffening

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