supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(11025208,11372042,and 11221202)
Biological materials such as bone, tooth, and nacre are load-bearing nanocomposites composed of mineral and protein. Since the mineral crystals often have slender geometry, the nanocomposites are susceptible to buckle...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(11025208,11221202,11372042,and 11202026);the Excellent Young Scholars Research Fund of Beijing Institute of Technology
The stiffness and strength of extracellular (EC) region of cadherin are proposed to be two important mechanical properties both for cadherin as a mechanotransductor and for the formation of cell-cell adhesion. In th...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(11221202and11025208);the State Key Laboratory of Explosive Science and Technology of Beijing Institute of Technology(YBKT12-05)
Cell adhesion and migration are basic physiolog- ical processes in living organisms. Cells can actively probe their mechanical micro-environment and respond to the ex- ternal stimuli through cell adhesion. Cells need ...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 0902015 and 11025208);the Research Funds for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China (Grant Nos.20091101120001 and 20111101110003)
Recent studies have shown that the triple-phase contact line has critical effect on the contact angle hysteresis of surfaces.In this study,patterned surfaces with various surface structures of different area fractions...