Mechanical properties of whole-body soft human tissues: a review

G Singh, A Chanda - Biomedical Materials, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The mechanical properties of soft tissues play a key role in studying human injuries and their
mitigation strategies. While such properties are indispensable for computational modelling …

Electrospun fiber-based flexible electronics: Fiber fabrication, device platform, functionality integration and applications

Q Gao, S Agarwal, A Greiner, T Zhang - Progress in Materials Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Flexible electronics have attracted considerable attention in the past two decades due to
their distinctive features and numerous potential applications in electronic skins, human …

Tunable hydrogel viscoelasticity modulates human neural maturation

JG Roth, MS Huang, RS Navarro, JT Akram… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Human-induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) have emerged as a promising in vitro model
system for studying neurodevelopment. However, current models remain limited in their …

Fifty shades of brain: a review on the mechanical testing and modeling of brain tissue

S Budday, TC Ovaert, GA Holzapfel… - … Methods in Engineering, 2020 - Springer
Brain tissue is not only one of the most important but also the most complex and compliant
tissue in the human body. While long underestimated, increasing evidence confirms that …

Mechanical characterization of human brain tissue

S Budday, G Sommer, C Birkl, C Langkammer… - Acta biomaterialia, 2017 - Elsevier
Mechanics are increasingly recognized to play an important role in modulating brain form
and function. Computational simulations are a powerful tool to predict the mechanical …

Mechanical properties of gray and white matter brain tissue by indentation

S Budday, R Nay, R De Rooij, P Steinmann… - Journal of the …, 2015 - Elsevier
The mammalian brain is composed of an outer layer of gray matter, consisting of cell bodies,
dendrites, and unmyelinated axons, and an inner core of white matter, consisting primarily of …

Multifunctional fibers for simultaneous optical, electrical and chemical interrogation of neural circuits in vivo

A Canales, X Jia, UP Froriep, RA Koppes… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Brain function depends on simultaneous electrical, chemical and mechanical signaling at
the cellular level. This multiplicity has confounded efforts to simultaneously measure or …

Advancing models of neural development with biomaterials

JG Roth, MS Huang, TL Li, VR Feig, Y Jiang… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Human pluripotent stem cells have emerged as a promising in vitro model system for
studying the brain. Two-dimensional and three-dimensional cell culture paradigms have …

Functional 3D neural mini‐tissues from printed gel‐based bioink and human neural stem cells

Q Gu, E Tomaskovic‐Crook, R Lozano… - Advanced …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Direct‐write printing of stem cells within biomaterials presents an opportunity to engineer
tissue for in vitro modeling and regenerative medicine. Here, a first example of constructing …

Mechanics of the brain: perspectives, challenges, and opportunities

A Goriely, MGD Geers, GA Holzapfel… - … and modeling in …, 2015 - Springer
The human brain is the continuous subject of extensive investigation aimed at
understanding its behavior and function. Despite a clear evidence that mechanical factors …