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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"single cell forces"”.
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Hierarchical Assembly of Polymeric Nanofibers for Advanced Material Applications
… diverse fields, such as tissue engineering, fuel cells, photonics and sensors. For these applications, manufacturing aligned polymer nanofibers with precisely controlled morphology and well characterized mechanical properties in a bottom up configuration is essential. In this work, we developed an …
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STEP-enabled Force Measurement Platform of Single Migratory Cells
… control on fiber diameters and orientation in single and multiple layers (diameter: sub 100nm micron, length: mm-cm), deposition (parallelism 2.5 degrees) and spacing (microns)). A wide range of polymers such as PLGA, PLA, PS, and PU have been utilized for their unique material properties in …
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Investigating Cell Viscoelastic Properties with Nanonet Force Microscopy
Determining the mechanical properties of living cells accurately and repeatably is critical to understanding developmental, disease, and repair biology. The cellular environment is composed of fibrous proteins of a mix of diameters organized in random and aligned configurations. In the past two …
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Suspended Micro/Nanofiber Hierarchical Scaffolds for Studying Cell Mechanobiology
Extracellular matrix (ECM) is a fibrous natural cell environment, possessing complicated micro-and nano- architectures, which provides signaling cues and influences cell behavior. Mimicking this three dimensional environment in vitro is a challenge in developmental and disease biology. Here, …