On the origin of stiffening in biopolymers

E. van der Giessen; T. Koeman; T. van Dillen; P.R. Onck

On the origin of stiffening in biopolymers

E. van der Giessen, T. Koeman, T. van Dillen, P.R. Onck

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Structure and Mechanical Behavior of Biological Materials
Editors	P Fratzl, WJ Landis, R Wang, FH Silver
Place of Publication	WARRENDALE
Publisher	Materials Research Society
Pages	L3.1.1-L3.1.7
Number of pages	7
Volume	874
ISBN (Print)	1-55899-828-4
Publication status	Published - 2005
Event	Symposium on Structure and Mechanical Behavior of Biological Materials held at the 2005 MRS Spring Meeting - , Canada Duration: 29-Mar-2005 → 31-Mar-2005

Publication series

Name	MATERIALS RESEARCH SOCIETY SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS
Publisher	MATERIALS RESEARCH SOCIETY
Volume	874
ISSN (Print)	0272-9172

Other

Other	Symposium on Structure and Mechanical Behavior of Biological Materials held at the 2005 MRS Spring Meeting
Country/Territory	Canada
Period	29/03/2005 → 31/03/2005

Keywords

NETWORKS
ACTIN
ELASTICITY
POLYMER
GELS

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van der Giessen, E, Koeman, T, van Dillen, T & Onck, PR 2005, On the origin of stiffening in biopolymers. in P Fratzl, WJ Landis, R Wang & FH Silver (eds), Structure and Mechanical Behavior of Biological Materials. vol. 874, MATERIALS RESEARCH SOCIETY SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS, vol. 874, Materials Research Society, WARRENDALE, pp. L3.1.1-L3.1.7, Symposium on Structure and Mechanical Behavior of Biological Materials held at the 2005 MRS Spring Meeting, Canada, 29/03/2005.

On the origin of stiffening in biopolymers. / van der Giessen, E.; Koeman, T.; van Dillen, T.; Onck, P.R.

Structure and Mechanical Behavior of Biological Materials. ed. / P Fratzl; WJ Landis; R Wang; FH Silver. Vol. 874 WARRENDALE : Materials Research Society, 2005. p. L3.1.1-L3.1.7 (MATERIALS RESEARCH SOCIETY SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS; Vol. 874).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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