Contractility-Induced Phase Separation in Active Solids
Contractility-Induced Phase Separation in Active Solids
Experiments over many decades are suggestive that the combination of cellular contractility and active phase separation in cell-matrix composites can enable spatiotemporal patterning in multicellular tissues across scales. To characterize these phenomena, we provide a general theory that incorporates active cellular contractility into the classical Cahn-Hilliard-Larch\'e model for phase separation …