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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Non-electrospinning"”.
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Hierarchical Assembly of Polymeric Nanofibers for Advanced Material Applications
… polystyrene nanofibers (diameter 60-800nm) using non-electrospinning Spinneret based Tunable Engineered Parameter (STEP) technique. By adjusting the processing parameters such as relative humidity, solvent volatility and polarity, porous polymer tubes are demonstrated having large specific surface …
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STEP-enabled Force Measurement Platform of Single Migratory Cells
… is a recently reported pseudo-dry spinning and non-electrospinning technique that allows for the deposition of aligned polymeric nano-fibers with control on fiber diameters and orientation in single and multiple layers (diameter: sub 100nm micron, length: mm-cm), deposition (parallelism 2.5 …
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Suspended Micro/Nanofiber Hierarchical Scaffolds for Studying Cell Mechanobiology
… nanofiber assemblies fabricated using the non-electrospinning STEP (Spinneret based Tunable Engineered Parameter) fiber manufacturing technique with controlled fiber diameter (microns to less than 100 nm), orientation and spacing in single and multiple layers are demonstrated as biological …
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Structural Stiffness Gradient along a Single Nanofiber and Associated Single Cell Response
… In this study using our recently described non-electrospinning fiber manufacturing platform, customized scaffolds of suspended nanofibers are developed to study single cell behavior in a tunable structural stiffness (N/m) environment. Suspended fibers of three different diameters (400, 700 …
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Investigating Cell Viscoelastic Properties with Nanonet Force Microscopy
… affected cellular mechanobiology. Using our non-electrospinning Spinneret based Tunable Engineered Parameters (STEP) fiber manufacturing platform, we developed fused nanonets to measure single-cell forces and viscoelasticity. Using computer-controlled probes, we stretched single cells …
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Cell-Fiber Interactions: A New Route to Mechano-Biological Investigations in Developmental and Disease Biology
… suspended fibers. Using our previously reported non-electrospinning Spinneret based Tunable Engineered Parameters (STEP) fiber manufacturing platform, we present our findings on single cell inside-out and outside-in forces using fibers of three diameters (250 nm, 400 nm and 800 nm) representing a …
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Cytoskeletal Remodeling in Fibrous Environments to Study Pathophysiology
… remains in infancy. Here, we utilize the non -electrospinning Spinneret tunable engineered parameters (STEP) technique to manufacture ECM mimicking suspended fibrous matrices with precisely controlled fiber diameters, network architecture, inter-fiber spacing and structural stiffness to …
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Single Cell Force Platforms to Link Force-ECM Coupling in Pathophysiology
… environment and cells is developed. Using the non-electrospinning Spinneret Tunable Engineered Parameters (STEP) technique, two complementary force measurement platforms of varying physical attributes are developed to investigate how the force feed-forward loop impacts cell fate. Nanonet Force …
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3D Coiling at the Protrusion Tip: New Perspectives on How Cancer Cells Sense Their Fibrous Surroundings
… fiber characteristics. In this study, we use the non-electrospinning, Spinneret based Tunable Engineered Parameters (STEP) technique to manufacture suspended nanofiber networks with exquisite control on fiber dimensions and network architecture and use these networks to investigate how single …
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Investigation of Single-Cell and Blood-Brain Barrier Mechanics after Electroporation and in Primary Brain Cancers
… fields to cause electroporation, a phenomenon characterized by increased cell membrane permeability, also can cause significant changes to cell and tissue mechanics. Here, we investigate the mechanics of brain and brain cancer cells, specifically focusing on how PEFs impact cell mechanics …