The micromechanics of three-dimensional collagen-I gels
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The micromechanics of three-dimensional collagen-I gels
We study the micromechanics of collagen-I gel with the goal of bridging the gap between theory and experiment in the study of biopolymer networks. Three-dimensional images of fluorescently labeled collagen are obtained by confocal microscopy and the network geometry is extracted using a 3d network skeletonization algorithm. Each fiber is modeled as a worm-like-chain that resists stretching and ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Complexity
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1076-2787
DOI: 10.1002/cplx.20332