Soft and hard materials at interfaces exhibit mismatched behaviors, such as mismatched
chemical or biochemical reactivity, mechanical response, and environmental adaptability …

A fundamental understanding of cell shaping with confined flexible filaments, including
microtubules, actin filaments, and engineered nanotubes, has been limited by the complex …

Atomic force microscopy (AFM)-based nanoindentation has emerged as a key
nanomechanical mapping method to probe mechanical properties of two-dimensional …

Mechanical properties play fundamental roles in regulating the biological behaviors of
nanovesicles in a wide range of implications including cell uptake, intercellular …

Membrane nanotubes, also known as membrane tethers, play important functional roles in
many cellular processes, such as trafficking and signaling. Although considerable …

Intracellular packing of one-dimensional and rodlike materials plays an important role in
many biological processes such as cell mimicking, microtubule protrusion, cell division …

Understanding lipid sorting of multicomponent cell membranes associated with tubular
deformation is of essential importance to many cell activities such as filopodial growth and …

Nanovesicles have been demonstrated to be the key agents in therapeutic encapsulations
for drug delivery and diagnostic area, and the effectiveness and efficiency of these …

Biological membranes are omnipresent in cells, not only enclosing organelles but also in the
form of highly dynamical structures such as tubular protrusions or complex branched …