Flexibly formed concrete: Exploiting the deformation behaviour of weft-knitted formworks caused by concrete pressure

To reduce the construction industry’s negative influence on global climate, emissions related to concrete consumption need to be addressed. This implies reducing the amount concrete used, by creating material-efficient structures. One of concrete’s main advantages is that it can be moulded into virtually any shape. Despite the fact that modern...

Synthetic Cell Aspirations: A Toolbox for Building a Membrane Container from the Bottom Up

Everything that we consider alive, be it plants, dogs, bacteria or humans, is composed of the same microscopic building blocks: cells. While cells between and even within these organisms can look and behave very differently, they all share the same key functionalities: they can grow, they can divide to proliferate, they can eat and metabolise to...

Determining mechanical properties of cell membranes using exposure-time corrected fluctuation spectrum analysis

Implementing a correction to vesicle fluctuation analysis that accomodates non-zero exposure times, analysing the effects of the changes.

Poisson's Ratio and Young's Modulus of Lipid Bilayers in Different Phases

A general computational method is introduced to estimate the Poisson’s ratio for membranes with small thickness. In this method, the Poisson’s ratio is calculated by utilizing a rescaling of inter-particle distances in one lateral direction under periodic boundary conditions. As an example for the coarse grained lipid model introduced by Lenz...