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Special issue on
Microscale Mechanics of Biomaterials |
Edited by Ashkan Vaziri & Mohammad R. K. Mofrad |
| Preface
997 Ashkan Vaziri & Mohammad R. K. Mofrad |
| Spontaneous unwinding of a labile domain in a collagen triple helix
999 Krishnakumar M. Ravikumar & Jay D. Humphrey & Wonmuk Hwang |
| Particle collision and adhesion under the influence of near-fields
1011 T. I. Zohdi |
| Hierarchical chemo-nanomechanics of proteins: entropic elasticity, protein unfolding and molecular fracture
1019 Markus J. Buehler |
| Micromechanical properties of chondrocytes and chondrons: relevance to articular cartilage tissue engineering
1059 Gidon Ofek & Kyriacos A. Athanasiou |
| Assessment of the mechanical properties of the nucleus inside a spherical endothelial cell based on microtensile testing
1087 Shinji Deguchi & Masayuki Yano & Ken Hashimoto & Hiroyuki Fukamachi & Seiichi Washio & Katsuhiko Tsujioka |
| Microscale hydrogels for medicine and biology: synthesis, characteristics and applications
1103 Christopher Rivest & David W. G. Morrison & Bin Ni & Jamie Rubin & Vikramaditya Yadav & Alborz Mahdavi & Jeffrey M. Karp & Ali Khademhosseini |
| A multilevel numerical model quantifying cell deformation in encapsulated alginate structures
1121 Kalyani Nair & Karen Chang Yan & Wei Sun |
| Modeling bone resorption using Mixture Theory with chemical reactions
1141 Gholamreza Rouhi & Marcelo Epstein & Leszek Sudak & Walter Herzog |
| The mechanics of tip growth morphogenesis: what we have learned from rubber balloons
1157 Roberto Bernal & Enrique R. Rojas & Jacques Dumais |
| Continuum-based computational models for cell and nuclear mechanics
1169 Ashkan Vaziri & Arvind Gopinath & Vikram S. Deshpande |
| Quantitative evaluation of mechanical properties of cell membranes: an exact solution
1193 Eveline Baesu & Sujatha Kalyanam & Marcelina Mocanu |
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