Our article on the #mechanics of "active" entropic biopolymer networks [possibly including #actomyosin, this is debated experimentally] is now published in J Elas.

Compared to enthalpic models, we're able to go right from the #thermodynamics of an unbiased #molecularMotor activity (in the spirit of the model by #JacquesProst for #myosin) at the molecular scale to a network-scale model in a closed form.

And we derive a method for solving quite easily the (usually tough) #viscoelastic #liquid model that we obtain, using #deformationGradientDecomposition.

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10659-024-10102-8
(I share a paywall-free link to my followers below, but it's also on arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.07287 and on my webpage https://liphy-annuaire.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/pages_personnelles/jocelyn_etienne/papers.html#Jallon+Etienne.2025.1)