Mechanical forces influence the growth and shape of virtually every tissue and organ in our bodies. However, little is known about the mechanisms by which individual cells sense these mechanical ...

Throughout our bodies, most of our organs are maintained and repaired through regulated cell division, where new cells replace old ones that are lost or damaged. Before a cell divides, it executes a ...

The fidelity of integration of pre- and postsynaptic activity by NMDA receptors (NMDARs) requires a match between agonist binding and ion channel opening. To address how agonist binding is transduced ...

Owing to the increasing number of industrial applications of electro-active polymers (EAPs), there is a growing need for electromechanical models which accurately capture their behaviour. To this end, ...

The ultimate goal of this project is to understand the fundamentals of triboelectrification through a first-principles investigation, both experimentally and theoretically. Although ...

SAE International Journal of Materials and Manufacturing, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2009), pp. 849-858 (10 pages) ABSTRACT The research described examines the relationship between damage/repair scenarios and the ...