Publications

  2010

• "Non-spherical shapes of capsules within a fourth-order curvature model"
  O. V. Manyuhina, J. J. Hetzel, M. I. Katsnelson and A. Fasolino.
  accepted for publication in EPJ E. (2010), [arXiv:1006.1292]

• "The interplay of an instability pattern with its flexible boundaries"
  G. Pucci, E. Fort, M. Ben Amar and Y. Couder
  (2010) submitted to PRL. .

• "Effective line tension and contact angles between membrane domains in biphasic vesicles."
  M. Trejo and M. Ben Amar.
  (2010) submitted to Soft matter. .

• "Self-contact and instabilities in the anisotropic growth of elastic membranes"
  N. Stoop, F. K. Wittel, M. Ben Amar, M. M. Müller and H. J. Herrmann
  (2010) submitted to PRL .

• "Localized growth of layered tissues"
  J. Dervaux and M. Ben Amar
  IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics, (2010) in press.

• "Swelling instability of surface-attached gels as a model of soft tissue growth under geometric constraints"
  M. Ben Amar and P. Ciarletta
  Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 58 (2010) 935–954.

  2009

• "Elastic growth in thin geometries"
  J. Dervaux and M. Ben Amar
  Origins of Life: Self-Organization and/or Biological Evolution? ,(2009) 79-94.

• "Hamiltonian formulation of surfaces with constant Gaussian curvature."
  M. Trejo, M. Ben Amar and Martin Michael Müller.
  J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. , 42, 425204 (2009).

• "Continuum model of epithelial morphogenesis during C. elegans embryonic elongation"
  P. Ciarletta, M. Ben Amar and M. Labouesse
  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 367 (2009) 3379-3400 .

• "Local Membrane Mechanics of Pore-Spanning Bilayers"
  I. Mey, M. Stephan, E. K. Schmitt, M. M. Müller, M. Ben Amar, C. Steinem and A. Janshoff
  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 131 (2009) 7031.

• "A finite dissipative theory of temporary interfibrillar bridges in the extra-cellular matrix of ligaments and tendons"
  P. Ciarletta and M. Ben Amar
  Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 6 (2009) 909-924 .

• "Morphogenesis of thin hyperelastic plates: A constitutive theory of biological growth in the Föppl-von Karman limit"
  J. Dervaux, P. Ciarletta and M. Ben Amar
  Journal of Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 57 (2009) 458.

• "Suction in Darcy and Stokes interfacial flows: Maximum growth rate versus minimum dissipation"
  M. Ben Amar and A. Boudaoud
  Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics, 166 (2009) 83.

  2008

• "Conical Defects in Growing Sheets"
  M. M. Müller, M. Ben Amar and J. Guven
  Phys. Rev. Lett., 101 (2008) 156104.

• "Morphogenesis of growing soft tissues"
  J. Dervaux and M. Ben Amar
  Phys. Rev. Lett., 101 (2008) 068101 .

  2007

• "Roughness of moving elastic lines: Crack and wetting fronts" (PDF)
  E. Katzav, M. Adda Bedia, M. Ben Amar and A. Boudaoud
  Phys. Rev. E, 76 (2007) 051601.

• "Stokes instability in inhomogeneous membranes: Application to lipoprotein suction of cholesterol-enriched domains"
  M. Ben Amar, J.-M. Allain, N. Puff and M. Angelova
  Phys. Rev. Lett., 99 (2007) 044503.

• "Periodic lipid membrane tubes" (PDF)
  F. Campelo, J.-M. Allain and M. Ben Amar
  Europhys. Lett., 77 (2007) 38006.