NSF funds research on Micro-Mechanics of Fiber Networks

The National Science Foundation has funded our proposal on ‘Inferring The In Situ Micro-Mechanics of Embedded Fiber Networks by Leveraging Limited Imaging Data’.

The project, conducted in collaboration with Dr. Emma Lejeune (Lejeune Lab, Boston University), will focus on gaining a fundamental understanding of embedded fiber networks and creating the tools necessary to characterize their behavior from limited available measurements. Embedded fiber networks are ubiquitous in nature, from the extracellular matrix surrounding biological cells, to branching blood vessels embedded in organs, to moth’s cocoons. Understanding these systems is important because these systems are the fundamental mechanical building blocks of many types of natural and engineered biological tissue, and bio-inspired advanced materials.

Further details about the grant can be found here.