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 …

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 …

For more than 100 years, chemical, physical, and material scientists have proposed
competing constitutive models to best characterize the behavior of natural and man-made …

Soft structures are capable of undergoing reversible large strains and deformations when
facing different types of loadings. Due to the limitations of linear elastic models, researchers …

Physical forces are ubiquitous in biological processes across scales and diverse contexts.
This review highlights the significance of mechanical forces in nervous system development …

Tissue mimicking materials (TMMs), typically contained within phantoms, have been used
for many decades in both imaging and therapeutic applications. This review investigates the …

In contemporary elasticity theory, the strain–energy function predominantly relies on the first
invariant I 1 of the deformation tensor; a practice that has been influenced by models derived …

Injury to the central nervous system (CNS) alters the molecular and cellular composition of
neural tissue and leads to glial scarring, which inhibits the regrowth of damaged axons …

The brain is our softest and most vulnerable organ, and understanding its physics is a
challenging but significant task. Throughout the past decade, numerous competing models …

The therapeutic efficacy of stem cells transplanted into an ischaemic brain depends primarily
on the responses of the neurovascular unit. Here, we report the development and …