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SUBMITTER: Charlton SGV
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10520682 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Charlton Samuel G V SGV Bible Amber N AN Secchi Eleonora E Morrell-Falvey Jennifer L JL Retterer Scott T ST Curtis Thomas P TP Chen Jinju J Jana Saikat S
Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) 20230731 27
Biofilms are aggregated bacterial communities structured within an extracellular matrix (ECM). ECM controls biofilm architecture and confers mechanical resistance against shear forces. From a physical perspective, biofilms can be described as colloidal gels, where bacterial cells are analogous to colloidal particles distributed in the polymeric ECM. However, the influence of the ECM in altering the cellular packing fraction (ϕ) and the resulting viscoelastic behavior of biofilm remains unexplore ...[more]