Nanomechanical map** of soft materials with the atomic force microscope: methods, theory and applications

R Garcia - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Fast, high-resolution, non-destructive and quantitative characterization methods are needed
to develop materials with tailored properties at the nanoscale or to understand the …

Osteoarthritis: toward a comprehensive understanding of pathological mechanism

DI Chen, J Shen, W Zhao, T Wang, L Han, JL Hamilton… - Bone research, 2017 - nature.com
Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common degenerative joint disease and a major cause of
pain and disability in adult individuals. The etiology of OA includes joint injury, obesity …

Cartilage-targeting drug delivery: can electrostatic interactions help?

AG Bajpayee, AJ Grodzinsky - Nature Reviews Rheumatology, 2017 - nature.com
Current intra-articular drug delivery methods do not guarantee sufficient drug penetration
into cartilage tissue to reach cell and matrix targets at the concentrations necessary to elicit …

Recent advancements in 3D printing of polysaccharide hydrogels in cartilage tissue engineering

J Naranda, M Bračič, M Vogrin, U Maver - Materials, 2021 - mdpi.com
The application of hydrogels coupled with 3-dimensional (3D) printing technologies
represents a modern concept in scaffold development in cartilage tissue engineering (CTE) …

Investigating the relationship between chemical composition and mechanical properties of asphalt binders using atomic force microscopy (AFM)

E Zhang, L Shan, X Qi, X Wang, Y Fan - Construction and Building …, 2022 - Elsevier
As a complex mixture, the composition-structure-mechanics relationship of asphalt binders
is not well-understood. Thus, it is essential to understand the relationship between chemical …

Viscoelasticity acts as a marker for tumor extracellular matrix characteristics

CT Mierke - Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Biological materials such as extracellular matrix scaffolds, cancer cells, and tissues are often
assumed to respond elastically for simplicity; the viscoelastic response is quite commonly …

[HTML][HTML] Osteoarthritis year in review 2015: mechanics

NH Varady, AJ Grodzinsky - Osteoarthritis and cartilage, 2016 - Elsevier
Motivated by the conceptual framework of multi-scale biomechanics, this narrative review
highlights recent major advances with a focus on gait and joint kinematics, then tissue-level …