Mechanical characterization of biomimetic membranes by micro ...

In this work, a new ultra-precise measuring instrument, micro-shaft poking (MSP), for characterizing mechanical properties of biomimetic materials is described.

A new micro-shaft poking technique has been developed, which is free from the complication of substrate backing, and which is normally an ...

Mechanical characterization of biomimetic membranes by micro ...

Mechanical characterization of biomimetic membranes by micro-shaft poking. Mark Ahearne, Eleftherios Siamantouras, Ying Yang and Kuo-Kang Liu ...

Mechanical characterization of biomimetic membranes by micro ...

Mechanical characterization of biomimetic membranes by micro-shaft poking. · Author(s): Ahearne, Mark et al. · Year: 2008 · DOI: 10.1098/rsif.

Mechanical characterization of biomimetic membranes by micro ...

Alginate and agarose were used to fabricate biomimetic membranes. Chicken epidermis was examined to represent a real biological tissue. The results show that ...

Microfluidic characterization of biomimetic membrane mechanics ...

Micropipette aspiration technique is the gold standard to characterize membrane mechanics, but it involves manual, long and tedious experiments. Microfluidics ...

Mechanical characterization of biomimetic membranes by micro ...

Characterization of the viscoelastic properties of these membranes is important in developing functional membranes. A new micro-shaft poking technique has ...

Microfluidic characterization of biomimetic membrane mechanics ...

The mechanic properties of cell membranes control many biological ... Microfluidic characterization of biomimetic membrane mechanics with an on-chip micropipette.

a Novel Instrument for Mechanically Characterizing Soft Biomimetic ...

Characterizing viscoelastic properties of soft biomimetic membranes has become increasingly important due to their biomedical applications such as tissue ...

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Mechanical characterization of biomimetic membranes by micro-shaft poking ... biomimetic soft membranes. The method has attracted interests form several ...

Electromechanical characterization of biomimetic membranes using ...

Mechanical properties of these lipid membrane such as the bending rigidity regulate many cell biological processes, for example, membrane fusion ...

Microfluidic characterization of biomimetic membrane mechanics ...

Microfluidic characterization of biomimetic membrane mechanics with an on-chip micropipette ... Authors: Marianne Elias; Adrien Dutoya; Adrian Laborde; Aurélie ...

Recent advances in microsystem approaches for mechanical ...

Microsystem technologies for evaluating the mechanical properties of soft biological tissues offer various capabilities relevant to medical ...

Microfluidics to characterize and manipulate biomimetic membranes

The mechanical properties of the cell's membrane control many biological processes ... Finally, we adapted the size of the micropipette in ...

Mechanical Characterization of the Erythrocyte Membrane Using a ...

The most used techniques for studying cell membrane mechanics include micropipette aspiration, optical tweezers, and atomic force microscopy (AFM) [17,18,19,20] ...

Biomimetic membranes: Advancements and applications

So, membranes used in these separation technologies are modified to provide high rejection, high water permeability flux at the expense of lower energy ...

Characterization and Analysis of Biomimetic Membranes

... Characterization and Analysis of Biomimetic Membranes' published in 'Nanobiotechnology of Biomimetic Membranes ... S. M. Stephens and R. A. Dluhy, Microchim. Acta ...

Mechanical Properties of Soft Biological Membranes for Organ-on-a ...

The membranes are composed of collagen I and elastin, two of the most abundant ECM proteins. (28) The mechanical characterization of the ...

Biomimetic and Bioinspired Membranes to Reconstruct ... - Frontiers

Biomimetic and Bioinspired Membranes to Reconstruct the Properties of Natural Systems ... membrane (micro- or nano-domains • The mechanical deformation of ...

Stability of biomimetic membranes in DC electric fields

We develop a zero-thickness model of the membrane, in which the bilayer finite thickness is effectively accounted for by membrane electro-mechanical properties ...