The mechanical properties of the skin are important for various applications. Numerous tests
have been conducted to characterize the mechanical behavior of this tissue, and this article …

Mechanical properties play important roles at different scales in biology. At the level of a
single cell, the mechanical properties mediate mechanosensing and mechanotransduction …

The quality of life of ageing populations is increasingly determined by age-related changes
to the mechanical properties of numerous biological tissues. Degradation and mechanical …

Nanoindentation techniques, with high spatial resolution and force sensitivity, have recently
been moved into the center of the spotlight for measuring the mechanical properties of …

The lack of practicable nonlinear elastic contact models frequently compels the
inappropriate use of Hertzian models in analyzing indentation data and likely contributes to …

Mechanical properties of biological materials are increasingly explored via nanoindentation
testing. This paper reviews the modes of deformation found during indentation: elastic …

Gelatin-polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) and gelatin-poly (vinyl alcohol)(PVA) mucoadhesive
buccal films loaded with propranolol hydrochloride (PRH) were prepared by semi-solid …

Brain tissue is considered to be biphasic, with approximately 80% liquid and 20% solid
matrix, thus exhibiting viscoelasticity due to rearrangement of the solid matrix and …

To understand how the complex biomechanical functions of the meniscus are endowed by
the nanostructure of its extracellular matrix (ECM), we studied the anisotropy and …

In this work we present a unified method to study the mechanical properties of cells using
the atomic force microscope. Stress relaxation and creep compliance measurements …