Materiomics: Multiscale Mechanics of Biological Materials and Structures

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Introduction

   • Roberto Ballarini, Markus Buehler

   Pages 1-11

3. Multi-scale modeling of biomaterials and tissues

   • Alfonso Gautieri, Markus J. Buehler

   Pages 13-55

4. Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) platforms for testing the mechanical properties of collagen fibrils

   • Roberto Ballarini, Harold Kahn

   Pages 57-69

5. Multiscale modeling of diffusion phenomena in polymers

   • Alberto Redaelli, Simone Vesentini, Alfonso Gautieri, Paolo Zunino

   Pages 71-86

6. Advances in Experimental Cell Biology and Cell-Material Interactions

   • Claire M. Cobley, Seraphine V. Wegner, Martin Streichfuss, Joachim P. Spatz

   Pages 87-105

7. Microfluidic Platforms for Human Disease Cell Mechanics Studies

   • Ebrahimi Warkiani Majid, Chwee Teck Lim

   Pages 107-119

8. Continuum analyses of structures containing cracks

   • Roberto Ballarini

   Pages 121-149

Multiscale mechanics of hierarchical materials plays a crucial role in understanding and engineering biological and bioinspired materials and systems. The mechanical science of hierarchical tissues and cells in biological systems has recently emerged as an exciting area of research and provides enormous opportunities for innovative basic research and technological advancement. Such advances could enable us to provide engineered materials and structure with properties that resemble those of biological systems, in particular the ability to self-assemble, to self-repair, to adapt and evolve, and to provide multiple functions that can be controlled through external cues. This book presents material from leading researchers in the field of mechanical sciences of biological materials and structure, with the aim to introduce methods and applications to a wider range of engineers.

• Biological Materials
• Biological Structures
• Materiomics
• Mechanics

• Civil and Environmental Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

  Markus J. Buehler

• Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

  Roberto Ballarini

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