Dual physically crosslinked silk fibroin ionoelastomer with ultrahigh stretchability and low hysteresis

H Zhang, L Cao, J Li, Y Liu, Z Lv, J Ren… - Chemistry of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Innovations in ionotronics have greatly facilitated the development of ultraflexible devices,
displays, and machines. However, ionotronics often suffer from an inherent trade-off …

Viscoelastic Characterization of Poly (3-hexylthiophene): Determination of Young's Modulus

BE Mefferd, VV Nambiar, H Lu… - ACS Applied Polymer …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Nanoindentation is an optimal technique for the measurement of thin film mechanical
properties. Polymers present a unique problem in that their response to loading is time …

A hyperelastic model to capture the mechanical behaviour and histological aspects of the soft tissues

KK Dwivedi, P Lakhani, S Kumar, N Kumar - Journal of the Mechanical …, 2022 - Elsevier
It is well established that the soft connective tissues show a nonlinear elastic response that
comes from their microstructural arrangement. Tissues' microstructure alters with various …

Effect of collagen fibre orientation on the Poisson's ratio and stress relaxation of skin: an ex vivo and in vivo study

KK Dwivedi, P Lakhani, S Kumar… - Royal Society Open …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
During surgical treatment skin undergoes extensive deformation, hence it must be able to
withstand large mechanical stresses without damage. Therefore, understanding the …

Non-Invasive in Vivo Quantification of Directional Dependent Variation in Mechanical Properties for Human Skin

P Lakhani, KK Dwivedi, A Parashar… - … in bioengineering and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Skin is the body's largest organ, and it shows non-linear and anisotropic behavior under the
deformation. This behavior of the skin is due to the waviness and preferred orientation (in a …

The multiscale characterization and constitutive modeling of healthy and type 2 diabetes mellitus Sprague Dawley rat skin

P Lakhani, P Sihota, K Tikoo, S Kumar, N Kumar - Acta Biomaterialia, 2023 - Elsevier
In type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), elevated glucose level impairs the biochemistry of the
skin which may result in alteration of its mechanical and structural properties. The several …

Mechanical behavior of full-thickness burn human skin is rate-independent

S Gallagher, K Josyula, Rahul, U Kruger, A Gong… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Skin tissue is recognized to exhibit rate-dependent mechanical behavior under various
loading conditions. Here, we report that the full-thickness burn human skin exhibits rate …

A Review on the Deformation Mechanism of Soft Tissue Collagen Molecules: An Atomistic Scale Experimental and Simulation Approaches

R Jhorar, CS Lamba - … for Atomistic-Scale Simulations: Materials and …, 2022 - Springer
Understanding the structural and mechanical response of biological tissues is important for
their diagnosis and treatment. The macroscopic mechanical behavior of tissues is correlated …

Mechanics of hyperelastic composites reinforced with nonlinear elastic fibrous materials in finite plane elastostatics

S Islam, SES Bolouri, CI Kim - International Journal of Engineering Science, 2021 - Elsevier
A model for the mechanics of a hyperelastic material reinforced with unidirectional and
bidirectional fibers is presented in finite plane elastostatics. This includes the refinement …

COMPRESSIVE RESPONSE OF WHITE MATTER AT LOW STRAIN RATES

L Su, B Qi, J Yin, X Qin, GM Genin, S Liu… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
The low strain-rate response of brain parenchyma is critical to predicting prognosis in cases
of hydrocephalus or cerebral edema, including in the prediction of brain stem herniation …