There exists a technological need for advanced materials with improved properties for
emerging biomedical applications. Recent developments in macroporous materials have …

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 …

This article reviews recent literature on polymer nanocomposites using advanced
indentation techniques to evaluate the surface mechanical properties down to the nanoscale …

In this review, we compare the reported values of Young's modulus (YM) obtained from
indentation and tensile deformations of soft biological tissues. When the method of …

The quality of life of ageing populations is increasingly determined by age-related changes
to the mechanical properties of numerous biological tissues. Degradation and mechanical …

The use of hydrogels as support materials for the growth and proliferation of mammalian
cells has been well documented as they closely mimic the gel-like properties–and in some …

Nanoindentation has recently emerged as a powerful tool for measuring nano-and
microscale mechanical properties in tissues and other biomaterials. This technique has …

When an indenter is pressed into a gel to a fixed depth, the solvent in the gel migrates, and
the force on the indenter relaxes. Within the theory of poroelasticity, the force relaxation …

Nanoindentation techniques, with high spatial resolution and force sensitivity, have recently
been moved into the center of the spotlight for measuring the mechanical properties of …

Mechanical characterization of soft materials at high strain-rates is challenging due to their
high compliance, slow wave speeds, and non-linear viscoelasticity. Yet, knowledge of their …