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Cellular Responses to Mechanical Cues Across Scales: From Fundamental Insights to Translational Potential

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
This review examines how cellular behavior is regulated by mechanical cues transmitted through soft biomaterials, from single‐cell mechanosensing to tissue‐level adaptation. It highlights why physiological relevance, rather than model complexity alone, is critical for translational mechanobiology and introduces a scoring framework linking material ...
Mathias Polz, Manuel P. Kainz, Niklas Haider, Theresa Rienmüller, Kerstin Lenk, Rupert Kargl, Michele Terzano, Gerhard Sommer, Gerhard A. Holzapfel, Julia Fuchs   +9 more
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Biomimetic Vascular Scaffold with Seamless Electrospun Aligned Nanofiber Conduit and 3D‐Printed Coil Reinforcement

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
We introduce a new fabrication method that overcomes the current limitation of tubular gap electrospinning. We successfully fabricated a seamless hollow tube with fibers aligned along the longitudinal axis in diameters as small as 300 µm, and then reinforced it using 4‐axis 3D printing.
Seyed Aliakbar Hosseini Toopghara, Young‐Ook Hwang, In A Kim, Che‐I Hyun, Hochung Ryu, Won‐Jae Kim, Jeong‐Tae Koh, Hyun‐Pil Lim, Jin‐Ho Kang, Sang‐Won Park   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Proposal of a generic constitutive model for deformation-dependent dielectric constant of dielectric elastomers

Engineering Science and Technology, an International Journal, 2021
Dielectric elastomers (DEs) are electroactive polymers that could be used as soft actuators, stretchable generators and sensors. Their performance is dependent on both their mechanical and dielectric properties.
Ajeet Kumar, Karali Patra
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Mechanically Compliant, Precision‐Porous Brain Implants Reduce the Foreign Body Reaction and Guide Regeneration

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
This study explores how the brain responds to implants of different properties. Hydrogels with various mechanical properties and pore sizes were implanted in adult rat brains. It is observed that hydrogels with mechanical property closely matched to the brain and 40 µm pore size elicit a pro‐healing response from the brain by modulating the immune ...
Ian Dryg, Le Zhen, Rebecca Darrow, Savannah Lawton, Lars Crawford, Robert Robinson, Steve Perlmutter, James D. Bryers, Buddy D. Ratner   +8 more
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Experimental validation of durable silicone elastomers for high-ductility seismic isolation bearings

Urban Lifeline
Although laminated elastomeric bearings are integral components in seismic isolation systems, their elastomeric materials remain susceptible to environmental degradation and temperature-induced aging.
Arthur Ramandalina, Ji Dang
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SEMI-ACTIVE DAMPING PERFORMANCE OF IRON PARTICLE FILLED SILICONE RUBBER

Acta Polytechnica CTU Proceedings, 2016
The aim of this work was to design, produce and evaluate a demonstrator to visualize the magneto-induced damping behaviour of materials. In contrast to standard materials, the damping coefficient of iron particle filled silicone rubbers can be controlled
Florian Dirisamer, Umut Cakmak, Edmund Marth, Zoltan Major   +3 more
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EVALUATION OF INTRINSIC COLOR STABILITY OF FACIAL SILICONE ELASTOMER REINFORCED WITH DIFFERENT NANOPARTICLES [PDF]

Alexandria Dental Journal, 2016
NTRODUCTION: Maxillofacial defects are located in a highly visible body area that is identified with one’s identity. An aesthetic and comfortable maxillofacial prosthesis relieves many concerns of the patient and may improve quality of life.
Abushelib Moustafa N., Alshimy Ahmad M., Eltayyar Nada H.   +2 more
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Bioinspired Adaptive Sensors: A Review on Current Developments in Theory and Application

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review comprehensively summarizes the recent progress in the design and fabrication of sensory‐adaptation‐inspired devices and highlights their valuable applications in electronic skin, wearable electronics, and machine vision. The existing challenges and future directions are addressed in aspects such as device performance optimization ...
Guodong Gong, You Zhou, Qingxiu Li, Wenyu Zhao, Sunyingyue Geng, Hangfei Li, Yan‐Bing Leng, Shirui Zhu, Guanglong Ding, Yongbiao Zhai, Ziyu Lv, Ye Zhou, Su‐Ting Han   +12 more
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Rapid Fabrication of Self‐Propelled and Steerable Magnetic Microcatheters for Precision Medicine

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
A rapid Joule heating fabrication method for the production of self‐propelling, adaptive microcatheters, with tunable stiffness and integrated microfluidic channels is presented. Demonstrated through three microrobotic designs, including a steerable guiding catheter, an untethered wave‐crawling TubeBot, and a distal‐end propelled microcatheter, it was ...
Zhi Chen, Boris Rivkin, David Castellanos‐Robles, Ivan Soldatov, Lukas Beyer, Mariana Medina‐Sánchez   +5 more
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Advanced characterization of the damping dynamics of silicone elastomers and natural rubber using the instrumented rebound resilience tester

Journal of Materials Research and Technology
This study investigates the relationship between rebound resilience (RR) and damping dynamics in elastomers using an instrumented pendulum impact tester. Four materials, three silicone elastomers and one natural rubber (NR), with varying Shore hardnesses
Carina Emminger, Umut Cakmak, Anatolij Nikonov, Michael Lackner, Zoltan Major   +4 more
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