Type I collagen hydrogels have been used successfully as three-dimensional substrates for
cell culture and have shown promise as scaffolds for engineered tissues and tumors. A …

Interest in hydrogel materials is growing rapidly, due to the potential for hydrogel use in
tissue engineering and drug delivery applications, and as coatings on medical devices …

Applying additive manufacturing technology to the principles of fibre reinforcement of
hydrogels, we have fashioned weak hydrogels into mechanically enhanced composites. We …

The increasing investigation of cellular mechanotransduction mechanisms requires
biomaterials combining biofunctionality and suitable mechanical properties. Agarose is a …

Single-shot coded-aperture optical imaging physically captures a code-aperture-modulated
optical signal in one exposure and then recovers the scene via computational image …

Understanding the mechanisms of deformation of biological materials is important for
improved diagnosis and therapy, fundamental investigations in mechanobiology, and …

Computational implementation of physical and physiologically realistic constitutive models is
critical for numerical simulation of soft biological tissues in a variety of biomedical …

A total of 37 human and 33 murine skin samples were subjected to uniaxial monotonic,
cyclic, and relaxation experiments. Detailed analysis of the three-dimensional kinematic …

We propose a nonlinear stress–strain law to describe nonlinear elastic properties of
biological tissues using an analogy with the derivation of nonlinear constitutive laws for …

Biomaterials that provide signals present in the native extracellular matrix have been
proposed as scaffolds to support improved cartilage regeneration. This study harnesses the …