Mechanical properties of whole-body soft human tissues: a review

G Singh, A Chanda - Biomedical Materials, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
… skin) in-vivo and limited internal tissues ex-vivo in cadavers (… not be only mechanical but also
biological and chemical, and … (skin's outer layer) and, along with collagen, gives the skin its …

[HTML][HTML] Inspiration from Nature's body armours–A review of biological and bioinspired composites

A Ghazlan, T Ngo, P Tan, YM Xie, P Tran… - Composites Part B …, 2021 - Elsevier
… -mechanical characteristics of selected biological armour … of their strong connectivity with
biological armour systems. It is well … of the macroscopic inner, middle and outer layers result in …

Programmed and self-organized flow of information during morphogenesis

C Collinet, T Lecuit - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2021 - nature.com
… In this Review, we address how cell mechanics and the … are connected by a supracellular
actomyosin mesh. Third, the emergent … c | Differential growth of an outer and an inner layer in …

The stiffness of living tissues and its implications for tissue engineering

CF Guimarães, L Gasperini, AP Marques… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
… on the mechanical properties of biological tissues differs greatly … the energy dissipated by
internal structural rearrangements. … where cell–cell connections are established and how these …

[HTML][HTML] A review of impact resistant biological and bioinspired materials and structures

BS Lazarus, A Velasco-Hogan, T Gómez-del Río… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - Elsevier
mechanical properties that are highly dependent on hydration. The hoof has two hydration
gradients, (1) distal to proximal and (2) interior to exterior. … Its function is to connect a muscle to …

Mechanomicrobiology: how bacteria sense and respond to forces

YF Dufrêne, A Persat - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2020 - nature.com
… A clear link has been established between mechanical input … against chemical, biological
and mechanical stressors 113 . … External conditions can influence internal matrix mechanics: …

Soft three-dimensional network materials with rational bio-mimetic designs

D Yan, J Chang, H Zhang, J Liu, H Song, Z Xue… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
… , anisotropic mechanical properties of biological tissues … serve as building blocks that connect
the lattice nodes. Different … Cu, and 100 nm Au, from inside to outside) on all of the helical …

Machine and organism

G Canguilhem - The Ethics of Biotechnology, 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
… possible to address the biological problem of the organism-machine by separating it from a
… give it externally the shapes and colors of all the parts of our bodies; He also places inside it …

Energy absorption characteristics of bio-inspired hierarchical multi-cell square tubes under axial crushing

N San Ha, TM Pham, H Hao, G Lu - International Journal of Mechanical …, 2021 - Elsevier
… structure with the inner square tube and outer circular tube … the inner tube and the connectivity
between inner and outer … the corner-to-web connectivity was the best configuration in term …

Cell–extracellular matrix mechanotransduction in 3D

A Saraswathibhatla, D Indana… - … Molecular Cell Biology, 2023 - nature.com
… Col-I networks initially resist external mechanical loading or … HA forms connected or
interpenetrating networks with other … However, the links between the molecular weight of HA and …