...Cassandra L. Roberge; David M. Kingsley; Lexie R. Cornely; Connor J. Spain; Aiyana G. Fortin; David T. Corr Hydrogel microbeads are engineered spherical microgels widely used for biomedical applications in cell cultures, tissue engineering, and drug delivery. Their mechanical and physical...

...Christian Balkovec; Jennifer Vernengo; Stuart M. McGill Fig. 1 ( a ) Heating jacket used to bring the specimens to sufficient temperature for the hydrogel to change from a liquid to a gel state. Rubber tubing was attached circumferentially and had heated water cycled through it. ( b...

... was developed to investigate cell-matrix interactions under unconfined compression conditions, using a tissue engineered encapsulating hydrogel seeded with chondrocytes. Model predictions of stress and strain distributions within the cell and on the cell boundary were shown to exhibit space-dependent responses...

..., including biological tissues and hydrogels, to low-frequency forces. Combining the results of confined and unconfined compression experiments on gelatin hydrogels with finite element analysis (FEA) simulations of the experiments, we explore the role of polymer structure, loading, and boundary conditions...