Compressive instabilities enable cell-induced extreme densification patterns in the fibrous extracellular matrix: Discrete model predictions

• Chrysovalantou Kalaitzidou ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: kalaitzidou.chr@gmail.com (CK); rosakis@uoc.gr (PR)

  Affiliation Department of Engineering, Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Luxembourg, Esch sur Alzette, Luxembourg

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3060-9725

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• Georgios Grekas,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Supervision

  Affiliations Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Heraklion, Greece

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• Andreas Zilian,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Engineering, Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Luxembourg, Esch sur Alzette, Luxembourg

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• Charalambos Makridakis,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources

  Affiliations Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Heraklion, Greece, Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece, Department of Mathematics, MPS, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom

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• Phoebus Rosakis

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kalaitzidou.chr@gmail.com (CK); rosakis@uoc.gr (PR)

  Affiliations Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Heraklion, Greece, Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece

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