Journal of Biomechanics
Volume 38, Issue 9 , Pages 1789-1797 , September 2005

Nanomechanics of opposing glycosaminoglycan macromolecules

  • Joonil Seog

      Affiliations

    • 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.
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  • Delphine Dean

      Affiliations

    • Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, MIT 13-4022, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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  • Bernd Rolauffs

      Affiliations

    • Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, MIT 13-4022, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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  • Tao Wu

      Affiliations

    • 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.
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  • Jan Genzer

      Affiliations

    • Riddick Laboratories, Department of Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7905, USA
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  • Anna H.K. Plaas

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USA
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  • Alan J. Grodzinsky

      Affiliations

    • 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
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  • Christine Ortiz

      Affiliations

    • Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, MIT 13-4022, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +16174523084; fax: +16174523085.

,Accepted 6 September 2004.

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PII: S0021-9290(04)00437-3

doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2004.09.010

Journal of Biomechanics
Volume 38, Issue 9 , Pages 1789-1797 , September 2005