Dielectric elastomer actuator for mechanical loading of 2D cell cultures

The IsoStretcher : An isotropic cell stretch device to study mechanical biosensor pathways in living cells

(2016) S Schürmann et al.   BIOSENSORS & BIOELECTRONICS

Printing low-voltage dielectric elastomer actuators

(2015) Alexandre Poulin et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Stimuli-responsive liquid crystal elastomers for dynamic cell culture

(2015) Aditya Agrawal et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS RESEARCH

Creased hydrogels as active platforms for mechanical deformation of cultured cells

(2015) Dayong Chen et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

The effect of oscillatory mechanical stimulation on osteoblast attachment and proliferation

(2015) Ashkan Aryaei et al.   Materials Science & Engineering C-Materials for Biological Applications

Microfluidic-assisted cyclic mechanical stimulation affects cellular membrane integrity in a human muscular dystrophy in vitro model

(2015) F. Michielin et al.   RSC Advances

Three Dimensional and Homogenous Single Cell Cyclic Stretch within a Magnetic Micropillar Array (mMPA) for a Cell Proliferation Study

(2015) Yibo Gao et al.   ACS Biomaterials-Science & Engineering

Three Dimensional and Homogenous Single Cell Cyclic Stretch within a Magnetic Micropillar Array (mMPA) for a Cell Proliferation Study

(2015) Yibo Gao et al.   ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering

See-saw rocking: an in vitro model for mechanotransduction research

(2014) R. P. Tucker et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

A microscale anisotropic biaxial cell stretching device for applications in mechanobiology

(2013) Dominique Tremblay et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY LETTERS

Oscillatory shear stress induced calcium flickers in osteoblast cells

(2013) Bibhas Roy et al.   Integrative Biology

Micromechanical stimulator for localized cell loading: fabrication and strain analysis

(2012) Qian Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROMECHANICS AND MICROENGINEERING

Modelling the lymphatic system: challenges and opportunities

(2012) K. N. Margaris et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Complex interplay of nonlinear processes in dielectric elastomers

(2012) Matthias Kollosche et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Hydrodynamic stretching of single cells for large population mechanical phenotyping

(2012) D. R. Gossett et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

An array of 100μm×100μm dielectric elastomer actuators with 80% strain for tissue engineering applications

(2012) Samin Akbari et al.   SENSORS AND ACTUATORS A-PHYSICAL

Mechanical stimuli differentially control stem cell behavior: morphology, proliferation, and differentiation

(2011) Timothy M. Maul et al.   Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology

Integrated strain array for cellular mechanobiology studies

(2011) C S Simmons et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROMECHANICS AND MICROENGINEERING

Mechanisms of large actuation strain in dielectric elastomers

(2011) Soo Jin Adrian Koh et al.   JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE PART B-POLYMER PHYSICS

Mechanical stimulation of epithelial cells using polypyrrole microactuators

(2011) Karl Svennersten et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Microtubule Dynamics Regulate Cyclic Stretch-Induced Cell Alignment in Human Airway Smooth Muscle Cells

(2011) Masataka Morioka et al.   PLoS One

Development of a biochip with serially connected pneumatic balloons for cell-stretching culture

(2011) Kazunori Shimizu et al.   SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B-CHEMICAL

A microfabricated platform for high-throughput unconfined compression of micropatterned biomaterial arrays

(2009) Christopher Moraes et al.   BIOMATERIALS

Liprin  1 is highly expressed in lymphatic vasculature and is important for lymphatic vessel integrity

(2009) C. Norrmen et al.   BLOOD

Matrix Crosslinking Forces Tumor Progression by Enhancing Integrin Signaling

(2009) Kandice R. Levental et al.   CELL

Individually programmable cell stretching microwell arrays actuated by a Braille display

(2008) Yoko Kamotani et al.   BIOMATERIALS