@inproceedings{9ca4a3fea25d4c7aabc1ccf655e1542c,
title = "On the origin of stiffening in biopolymers",
abstract = "Strain stiffening of protein networks is explored by means of a finite strain analysis of a two-dimensional network model of cross-linked semiflexible filaments. The results show that stiffening is caused by non-affine network rearrangements that govern a transition from a bending dominated response at small strains to a stretching dominated response at large strains. Thermally-induced filament undulations only have a minor effect; they merely postpone the transition.",
keywords = "NETWORKS, ACTIN, ELASTICITY, POLYMER, GELS",
author = "{van der Giessen}, E. and T. Koeman and {van Dillen}, T. and P.R. Onck",
year = "2005",
language = "English",
isbn = "1-55899-828-4",
volume = "874",
series = "MATERIALS RESEARCH SOCIETY SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS",
publisher = "Materials Research Society",
pages = "L3.1.1--L3.1.7",
editor = "P Fratzl and WJ Landis and R Wang and FH Silver",
booktitle = "Structure and Mechanical Behavior of Biological Materials",
note = "Symposium on Structure and Mechanical Behavior of Biological Materials held at the 2005 MRS Spring Meeting ; Conference date: 29-03-2005 Through 31-03-2005",
}