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2010 Predicting Dislocation Climb and Creep from Explicit Atomistic Details Combinatorial development of biomaterials for clonal growth of human pluripotent stem cells Calpain- and talin-dependent control of microvascular pericyte contractility and cellular stiffness Predicting polymer nanofiber interactions via molecular simulations Pericyte actomyosin-mediated contraction at the cell-material interface can modulate the microvascular niche Genetically Engineered Phage Fibers and Coatings for Antibacterial Applications 2009 Design of Antibacterial Surfaces and Interfaces: Polyelectrolyte Multilayers as a Multifunctional Platform Hydrogen-Vacancy Interactions in Fe-C Alloys A realistic molecular model of cement hydrates Electrochemically controlled swelling and mechanical properties of a polymer nanocomposite Quantitative impact testing of energy dissipation at surfaces Challenges and progress in high-throughput screening of polymer mechanical properties by indentation Mechanical properties of glassy polyethylene nanofibers via molecular dynamics simulations Controlling chemical oscillations in heterogeneous Belousov-Zhabotinsky gels via mechanical strain Characterizing rare-event property distributions via replicate molecular dynamics simulations of proteins Stop-flow
lithography for the production of shape-evolving degradable microgel
particles Modulation
of hepatocyte phenotype in vitro via chemomechanical tuning of polyelectrolyte
multilayers Atomistic
examination of the unit processes and vacancy-dislocation interaction
in dislocation climb Correlating
the mechanical and surface properties with the composition of triblock
copoly(2-oxazoline)s 2008 Chemomechanics
of complex materials: challenges and opportunities in predictive kinetic
timescales Influence
of finite thickness and stiffness on cellular adhesion-induced deformation
of compliant substrata Quantifying
deformation and energy dissipation of polymeric surfaces under localized
impact Probing
mechanical properties of fully hydrated gels and biological tissues Modeling
and simulation of chemomechanics at the cell-matrix interface Substrata
mechanical stiffness can regulate adhesion of viable bacteria Characterization
of Mineralized Collagen-Glycosaminoglycan Scaffolds for Bone Regeneration Extending
Bell's Model: how force transducer stiffness alters measured unbinding
forces and kinetics of molecular complexes |
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2007Molecular
dynamics simulation of size-dependent structural and thermal properties
of polymer nanofibers Synthesis
and structure-property relationships of random and block copolymers:
a direct comparison for Copoly(2-oxazoline)s Enhanced
stiffness of amorphous polymer surfaces under confinement of localized
contact loads Elastic
moduli for a diblock copoly(2-oxazoline) library obtained by highthroughput
screening Dealing
with imperfection: quantifying potential length scale artefacts from
nominally spherical indenter probes Chemomechanical
mapping of ligand-receptor binding kinetics on cells Many-body
potential for point defect clusters in Fe-C alloys Weaving
genetically engineered functionality into mechanically robust virus
fibers
Multiscale creep compliance of epoxy networks at elevated temperatures | |
2006Equilibration
of experimentally determined protein structures for molecular dynamics
simulation On
the indentation recovery and fleeting hardness of polymers Robust
approach to maximize the range and accuracy of force application in
atomic force microscopes with nonlinear position-sensitive detectors
Biochemical
functionalization of polyelectrolyte multilayers can alter mechanical
compliance Point
defect concentrations in metastable Fe-C alloys Effects
of nanoscale thickness and elastic nonlinearity on measured mechanical
properties of polymeric films Size
effects on the stiffness of silica nanowires | |
2005
Tuning
compliance of polyelectrolyte multilayers to modulate cell adhesion Predicting
in vivo failure of pseudoelastic NiTi devices under low cycle, high
amplitude fatigue
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| 2004 Endothelial
cells as mechanical transducers: Effects of cyclic strain on enzymatic
activity and organization Direct
measurement of indentation frame compliance Predictive
modeling of nanoindentation-induced homogeneous dislocation nucleation
in copper Elastic
criterion for dislocation nucleation |
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2003The
biomechanics toolbox: Experimental approaches for living cells and biomolecules Quantifying
the early stages of plasticity through nanoscale experiments and simulations Model
experiments for direct visualization of grain boundary deformation in
nanocrystalline metals On
the use of nanoindentation for cementitious materials |
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2002 Atomistic
mechanisms governing elastic limit and incipient plasticity in crystals Simulation
of cyclic normal indentation of crystal surfaces using the bubble-raft
model |
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2001 Nanoindentation:
Simulation of defect nucleation in a crystal Mechanical
properties of thin films quantified via instrumented indentation |
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