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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"tissue-mimic"”.
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On the Rheology of Soft Cellular Materials, An Experimental Investigation of the Microstructure and Rheology of a Novel Tissue-Mimic Material
… key determinants of the mechanical properties of tissues, this thesis is a study of the rheology of a synthetic tissue-mimic material made from functionalised giant unilamellar lipid vesicles, in which inter-particle adhesion and membrane tension can be varied experimentally by controlling the …
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Development of a high-fidelity biorobotic cardiovascular in vitro simulator
… preserves organic intracardiac structures and mimics cardiac motion by replicating the cardiac myofiber architecture of the left ventricle. The heart model is composed of organic endocardial tissue from a preserved explanted heart with intact intracardiac structures and an active synthetic …
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Stimuli-responsive self-assembling materials comprising amphiphilic copolymers for localized remotely triggered therapeutic delivery
… or including amphiphilic copolymers towards deep-tissue externally triggered localized therapeutic delivery applications. First, we probed a polyelectrolyte multilayer incorporating poly(L-glutamic acidtriethylene glycol-diclofenac) copolymer micellar aggregates for near-infrared responsive …
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Engineering effective fibrocartilage replacement technologies using nanostructure-driven replication of soft tissue biomechanics in thermoplastic elastomer hydrogels
… biomechanical demands of musculoskeletal soft tissues continues to present a formidable materials science challenge. Current systems are hampered by combinations of limited moduli at biomechanically relevant strains, inefficiencies driven by undesirable hysteresis and permanent fatigue, and …
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Experimental and Computational Modelling of Tissue Rheology and Mechanics in Morphogenesis
In this thesis, we report two tissue models designed to investigate how key cellular mechanical parameters interact with tissue material properties and active cell behaviour to drive tissue deformation in the context of biological development. Firstly, an experimental, three-dimensional tissue …
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Process-Property Characterization for Multi-Material Jetting Applications
… but commercial MJ elastomers are unable to mimic human tissues' mechanical properties, which limits the instructional value of printed anatomic models. By combining photo-curing and non-curing materials, a cardiac tissue-mimicking material was achieved and integrated into a fully-printed …
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Nebulizer facilitated molding of freeform 3D printed sacrificial scaffolds for breast tumor microenvironment tissue engineering
… essential for providing correct geometries in tissue engineered organs and models. Luminal structures are necessary for providing function in epithelial tissues including breast ducts, lungs, liver, and kidney. Cylindrical vessels are also necessary for expanding the size of model organs, …
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Fluid Dynamic Assessments of Spiral Flow Induced by Vascular Grafts
… the grafts in different surgical configurations. Mimicking components, with appropriate acoustic properties, were chosen to minimise ultrasound beam refraction and distortion. A dual-beam two-dimensional vector Doppler technique was developed to visualise and quantify vortical structures …