Nanomechanics of opposing glycosaminoglycan macromolecules

Seog, Joonil; Dean, Delphine; Rolauffs, Bernd; Wu, Tao; Genzer, Jan; Plaas, Anna H.K.; Grodzinsky, Alan J.; Ortiz, Christine

doi:10.1016/j.jbiomech.2004.09.010

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Volume 38, Issue 9 , Pages 1789-1797, September 2005

Nanomechanics of opposing glycosaminoglycan macromolecules

Joonil Seog
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, MIT 13-4022, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
- Present address: The CBR Institute for Biomedical Research, Inc., Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Delphine Dean
- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, MIT 13-4022, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Bernd Rolauffs
- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, MIT 13-4022, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Tao Wu
- Riddick Laboratories, Department of Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7905, USA
- Present address: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Polymers Division, Polymers Building (224), Room B228, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8546, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8546, USA.
Jan Genzer
- Riddick Laboratories, Department of Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7905, USA
Anna H.K. Plaas
- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USA
Alan J. Grodzinsky
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, MIT 13-4022, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, MIT 13-4022, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
- Biological Engineering Division, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, MIT 13-4022, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Christine Ortiz
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, MIT 13-4022, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
- Corresponding author. Tel.: +16174523084; fax: +16174523085.