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Edward D. McCarthy, Jae H. Kim, N. Alan Heckert, Stefan D. Leigh, Gale A. Holmes, Jeffrey W. Gilman
The mechanical strength of a structural composite is strongly affected by the strength and toughness of the interface achieved between the continuous matrix phase, or resin, and the re-inforcing phase, normally consisting of multiple arrays of carbon or
Edward D. McCarthy, Jae H. Kim, N. Alan Heckert, Stefan D. Leigh, Gale A. Holmes, Jeffrey W. Gilman
The mechanical strength of a structural composite is strongly affected by the strength and toughness of the interface achieved between the continuous matrix phase, or resin, and the re-inforcing phase, normally consisting of multiple arrays of carbon or
Carl G. Simon Jr., Hockin H. Xu, Michael D. Weir, WahWah Thein-Han
Human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells (hUCMSCs) are a promising alternative to bone marrow MSCs, which require invasive procedures to harvest. The objectives of this study were to develop a novel non-rigid and tough calcium phosphate cement (CPC)
Derek Juba, Antonio Cardone, Cheuk Y. Ip, Carl Simon Jr., Christopher K. Tison, Girish Kumar, Mary C. Brady
Autologous stem cells show great promise for tissue engineering as they can regenerate diseased or damaged tissue, without requiring an organ donor or causing immune rejection. A primary goal of regenerative medicine is to identify methods for controlling
Jeffrey W. Gilman, Mauro Zammarano, Iulia A. Sacui, Jeremiah Woodcock
Cellulose is the most abundant organic polymer on Earth, found in plants (cotton, hemp, wood), marine animals (Tunicate), algae (Valonia) bacteria (Acetobacter xylium) and even amoeba (Dictyostelium discoideum). Critical features of the structural
Christopher Soles, Hyun W. Ro, Aaron M. Forster, Dave J. Krug, Vera Popova, Richard M. Laine
In this manuscript a series of cubic silsequioxane monomers with their eight vertices functionalized with different organic ligands terminated with triethoxysilane groups were acid hydrolyzed, spin cast into thin films, and then vitrified into hard
Edwin P. Chan, A M. Urbas, Joseph J. Walish, Edwin L. Thomas
Polymer gels are remarkable materials with physical structures that can adapt significantly and quite rapidly with changes in the local environmental changes such as temperature, light intensity, electrochemistry, and mechanical force. An interesting
Jae Hyun Kim, Nathanael A. Heckert, Walter G. McDonough, Kirk D. Rice, Gale A. Holmes
The Kolsky bar test has been widely used in measuring material behavior under high strain rate conditions. In particular, polymers used in ballistic applications have been characterized by this method to investigate high strain rate behaviors during the
Gale A. Holmes, Jae Hyun Kim, Nathanael A. Heckert, Walter G. McDonough, Stefan D. Leigh, Kirk D. Rice
The use of advanced fibers in applications where they are subjected to extremely energetic events has necessitated the need to develop measurement tools that quantify their properties at high strain rates (HSR). The split Hopkinson tension bar (SHTB) has
Jae Hyun Kim, Nathanael A. Heckert, Walter G. McDonough, Kirk D. Rice, Gale A. Holmes
The Kolsky bar test has been widely used in measuring material response under high strain rate conditions. Initial experiments in the literature applying this test to measure single fiber properties for fibers used in soft body armor with the Kolsky bar
Carl G. Simon Jr., Limin Sun, Laurence C. Chow, William Miles, Christopher K. Tison, Kaushik Chatterjee, Marian F. Young, Vinoy Thomas, Murugan Ramalingam
A 2-spinnerette approach has been developed for fabricating nanofiber scaffold gradients for use as 1) scaffold libraries for screening the effect of nanofiber properties on cell response and 2) templates for generating graded tissue interfaces. Although
Laura A. Smith Callahan, Yanrui Ma, Christopher Stafford, Matthew L. Becker
We demonstrate a versatile, well controlled, and highly reproducible surface density gradient fabrication strategy that allows for precise control over surface functionality and slope. Our approach involves of a novel "vacuum away" channel confinement
Jae Hyun Kim, Nathanael A. Heckert, Stefan D. Leigh, Haruki Kobayashi, Walter G. McDonough, Kirk D. Rice, Gale A. Holmes
Single fiber tensile tests using two different gripping methods were carried out on various fiber lengths. One method (the glue-tab grip) consists of mounting a fiber onto a rigid tab as specified in ASTM C1557-03 using an adhesive, while the other (the