Mechanical behaviour of contractile gels based on light-driven molecular motors

Jean-Rémy Colard-Itté1, Quan Li, Dominique Collin

  • 1SAMS Research Group, Institut Charles Sadron, CNRS, University of Strasbourg, 23 rue du Loess, BP 84047, 67034 Strasbourg Cedex 2, France. giuseppone@unistra.fr.

Nanoscale
|March 13, 2019
PubMed

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