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The inner workings of stress fibers - from contractile machinery to focal adhesions and back by Livne, Ariel, Geiger, Benjamin

“…Ventral stress fibers and focal adhesions are physically coupled structures that play key roles in cellular mechanics and force sensing. The tight functional…”
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Near-Tip Fields of Fast Cracks by Livne, Ariel, Bouchbinder, Eran, Svetlizky, Ilya, Fineberg, Jay

“…In a stressed body, crack propagation is the main vehicle for material failure. Cracks create large stress amplification at their tips, leading to large…”
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Breakdown of linear elastic fracture mechanics near the tip of a rapid crack by Livne, Ariel, Bouchbinder, Eran, Fineberg, Jay

“…We present high resolution measurements of the displacement and strain fields near the tip of a dynamic (mode I) crack. The experiments are performed on…”
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Weakly nonlinear theory of dynamic fracture by Bouchbinder, Eran, Livne, Ariel, Fineberg, Jay

“…The common approach to crack dynamics, linear elastic fracture mechanics, assumes infinitesimal strains and predicts a r(-1/2) strain divergence at a crack…”
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Mechanical interplay between invadopodia and the nucleus in cultured cancer cells by Revach, Or-Yam, Weiner, Allon, Rechav, Katya, Sabanay, Ilana, Livne, Ariel, Geiger, Benjamin

“…Invadopodia are actin-rich membrane protrusions through which cells adhere to the extracellular matrix and degrade it. In this study, we explored the…”
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The 1 / r singularity in weakly nonlinear fracture mechanics by Bouchbinder, Eran, Livne, Ariel, Fineberg, Jay

“…Material failure by crack propagation essentially involves a concentration of large displacement-gradients near a crack's tip, even at scales where no…”
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Differential effect of actomyosin relaxation on the dynamic properties of focal adhesion proteins by Lavelin, Irena, Wolfenson, Haguy, Patla, Israel, Henis, Yoav I, Medalia, Ohad, Volberg, Tova, Livne, Ariel, Kam, Zvi, Geiger, Benjamin

“…Treatment of cultured cells with inhibitors of actomyosin contractility induces rapid deterioration of stress fibers, and disassembly of the associated focal…”
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Cell reorientation under cyclic stretching by Livne, Ariel, Bouchbinder, Eran, Geiger, Benjamin

“…Mechanical cues from the extracellular microenvironment play a central role in regulating the structure, function and fate of living cells. Nevertheless, the…”
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Acquisition of inertia by a moving crack by Goldman, Tamar, Livne, Ariel, Fineberg, Jay

“…We experimentally investigate the dynamics of "simple" tensile cracks. Within an effectively infinite medium, a crack's dynamics perfectly correspond to…”
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Tissue-Level Mechanosensitivity: Predicting and Controlling the Orientation of 3D Vascular Networks by Landau, Shira, Moriel, Avraham, Livne, Ariel, Zheng, Ming H, Bouchbinder, Eran, Levenberg, Shulamit

“…Understanding the mechanosensitivity of tissues is a fundamentally important problem having far-reaching implications for tissue engineering. Here we study…”
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Oscillations in rapid fracture by Livne, Ariel, Ben-David, Oded, Fineberg, Jay

“…Experiments of pure tensile fracture in thin brittle gels reveal a new dynamic oscillatory instability whose onset occurs at a critical velocity, VC=0.87CS,…”
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Force Loading During Mechanosensing Emerges from Non-Mechanosensitive Active Displacements by Feld, Lea, Livne, Ariel, Lubomirsky, Yuri, Mukherjee, Abhishek, Bouchbinder, Eran, Wolfenson, Haguy

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Cellular contractile forces are nonmechanosensitive by Feld, Lea, Kellerman, Lior, Mukherjee, Abhishek, Livne, Ariel, Bouchbinder, Eran, Wolfenson, Haguy

“…Cells' ability to apply contractile forces to their environment and to sense its mechanical properties (e.g., rigidity) are among their most fundamental…”
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Cell Reorientation under Cyclic Stretching by Livne, Ariel, Bouchbinder, Eran, Geiger, Benjamin

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Conformational states during vinculin unlocking differentially regulate focal adhesion properties by Chorev, Dror S., Volberg, Tova, Livne, Ariel, Eisenstein, Miriam, Martins, Bruno, Kam, Zvi, Jockusch, Brigitte M., Medalia, Ohad, Sharon, Michal, Geiger, Benny

“…Focal adhesions (FAs) are multi-protein complexes that connect the actin cytoskeleton to the extracellular matrix, via integrin receptors. The growth,…”
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Weakly nonlinear fracture mechanics: experiments and theory by Bouchbinder, Eran, Livne, Ariel, Fineberg, Jay

“…Material failure occurs at the small scales in the immediate vicinity of the tip of a crack. Due to its generally microscopic size and the typically high crack…”
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Differential Effect of Actomyosin Relaxation on the Dynamic Properties of Focal Adhesion Proteins: e73549 by Lavelin, Irena, Wolfenson, Haguy, Patla, Israel, Henis, Yoav I, Medalia, Ohad, Volberg, Tova, Livne, Ariel, Kam, Zvi, Geiger, Benjamin

“…Treatment of cultured cells with inhibitors of actomyosin contractility induces rapid deterioration of stress fibers, and disassembly of the associated focal…”
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Cell reorientation under cyclic stretching by Livne, Ariel, Bouchbinder, Eran, Geiger, Benjamin

“…Nature Communications 5, 3938 (2014) Mechanical cues from the extracellular microenvironment play a central role in regulating the structure, function and fate…”
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The 1/r singularity in weakly nonlinear fracture mechanics by Bouchbinder, Eran, Livne, Ariel, Fineberg, Jay

“…Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 57, 1568 (2009) Material failure by crack propagation essentially involves a concentration of large…”
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The Breakdown of Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics near the Tip of a Rapid Crack by Livne, Ariel, Bouchbinder, Eran, Fineberg, Jay

“…Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 264301 (2008) We present high resolution measurements of the displacement and strain fields near the tip of a dynamic (Mode I) crack. The…”
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