Computational Analysis of Viscoelastic Properties of Crosslinked Actin Networks
Figure 5
Behaviors of prestrained networks.
(A) G′ (solid symbols) and G″ (open symbols) of networks with R = 0.021 at various prestrain: γ = 0.55 (black circles), 0.4 (magenta triangles), 0.2 (blue inverted triangles), and 0 (green diamonds). At high prestrain, G′ becomes nearly independent of frequency. G″ with high prestrain slightly increases at low frequency. (B) G′ at fs = 3.16 Hz versus prestress, τ0. G′ begins to increase at about 0.1 Pa and follows a power law, G′∼τ00.85.