TY - GEN
T1 - Computation of local elastic and torsional properties of soft hydrogels
AU - Chippada, Uday
AU - Georges, Penelope
AU - Jiang, Xue
AU - Li, Lulu
AU - Yurke, Bernard
AU - Langrana, Noshir A.
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2010 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - A new technique to measure the mechanical properties of soft hydrogels is presented. The values obtained from this method matched well with the values obtained from rheometer tests. This technique allows us to explore the local properties dynamically, for example it can be employed for collagen gels whose properties change with temperature. Also stiffness changes by the addition of crosslinks in DNA gels can be measured on the fly. This technique can be extended to be used in the presence of cells, to observe the effect of the substrate stiffness on cell behavior.
AB - A new technique to measure the mechanical properties of soft hydrogels is presented. The values obtained from this method matched well with the values obtained from rheometer tests. This technique allows us to explore the local properties dynamically, for example it can be employed for collagen gels whose properties change with temperature. Also stiffness changes by the addition of crosslinks in DNA gels can be measured on the fly. This technique can be extended to be used in the presence of cells, to observe the effect of the substrate stiffness on cell behavior.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77952611318
SN - 9780791843215
T3 - Proceedings of the ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference, SBC2008
SP - 293
EP - 294
BT - Proceedings of the ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference, SBC2008
T2 - 10th ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference, SBC2008
Y2 - 25 June 2008 through 29 June 2008
ER -