The past 20 years have witnessed ever-growing evidence that the mechanical properties of
biological tissues, from nanoscale to macroscale dimensions, are fundamental for cellular …

Cavitation is the sudden, unstable expansion of a void or bubble within a liquid or solid
subjected to a negative hydrostatic stress. Cavitation rheology is a field emerging from the …

Published data on the mechanical strength and elasticity of lung tissue is widely variable,
primarily due to differences in how testing was conducted across individual studies. This …

Cavitation bubbles form in soft biological systems when subjected to a negative pressure
above a critical threshold, and dynamically change their size and shape in a violent manner …

Eshelby's theory of inclusions has wide-reaching implications across the mechanics of
materials and structures including the theories of composites, fracture, and plasticity …

The overall physical properties of tissues emerge in a complex manner from the properties
of the component cells and other constituent materials from which the tissue is formed …

The cavitation rheology technique extracts soft materials mechanical properties through
pressure-monitored fluid injection. Properties are calculated from the system's response at a …

We describe rheological protocols to study layered and three-dimensional (3D)-printed gels.
Our methods allow us to measure the properties at different depths and determine the …

Cavity expansion can be used to measure the local nonlinear elastic properties in soft
materials, regardless of the specific damage or instability mechanism that it may ultimately …

Minimally invasive experimental methods that can measure local rate dependent
mechanical properties are essential in understanding the behaviour of soft and biological …