Abstract: The nanostructure of biological materials is built with hard mineral crystals embedded in soft protein matrix in a staggered manner. The staggered arrangement of the crystals is assumed to be critically important for the ...

Abstract: It is well known that the biological composites have superior mechanical properties due to their exquisite multilevel structural hierarchy. However, the underlying mechanisms of the roles of this hierarchical design in the ...

Abstract: It has been recognized that cells are able to actively sense and respond to the mechanical signals through an orchestration of many subcellular processes, such as cytoskeleton remodeling, nucleus reorientation, and ...

Abstract: Collective cell motion is crucial for various physiological and pathological processes, and it highly relies on physical factors in cell microenvironment. However, a quantitative understanding of the effect of the physical ...

Abstract: Finger-like structures emerging from groups of cells at the forefront of cell layer take crucial roles in the migration of collective cell assemblies. However, the mechanics of the finger-like structure has not been fully ...

Abstract: Currently, specimenspecific micro finite element (خ¼FE) analysis based micro computed tomography (خ¼CT) images have become a major computational tool for the assessment of the mechanical properties of human trabecular bone. ...