A physical model for a fibrous network and its application to the shear modulus and other data of the fibrin gel Original Research Article

A physical model for a fibrous network is developed and used to calculate its shear modulus. The model is applied to the shear modulus data of the fibrin gel and compared with other data related to the fibrin gel to elucidate the physical origins for some of the interesting properties of the gel such as the concentration dependence of the shear modulus and the difference between fine and course gels.