Impact of surface adhesion and sample heterogeneity on the multiscale mechanical characterisation of soft biomaterials

W Megone, N Roohpour, JE Gautrot - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
The mechanical properties of soft materials used in the biomedical field play an important
role on their performance. In the field of tissue engineering, it is known that cells sense the …

Polyglobalide-based porous networks containing poly (ethylene glycol) structures prepared by photoinitiated thiol–ene coupling

CL Savin, C Peptu, Z Kroneková, M Sedlačík… - …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The high interest in polymers from natural resources prompted us to investigate the use of
enzymatically synthesized polyglobalide (PGL) in the preparation of polymer networks with …

Plasmachemical double click thiol–ene reactions for wet electrical barrier

RC Fraser, A Carletto, M Wilson… - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Click thiol–ene chemistry is demonstrated for the reaction of thiol containing molecules with
surface alkene bonds during electrical discharge activation. This plasmachemical reaction …

Design and Characterisation of Soft Biomaterials and Interfaces for Bio-Adhesives and Cell Culture

W Megone - 2019 - qmro.qmul.ac.uk
This thesis consists of three chapters which can be split into studies of (1) the impact of
length scale, surface adhesion and heterogeneity on the mechanical charac-terisation of soft …