Megan Valentine

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University of California, Santa Barbara

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Professor Megan Valentine is a faculty member at the University of California Santa Barbara, USA. Her research areas encompass polymer science, materials engineering, and bioinspired design, as evidenced by her recent publications on topics such as 3D-printed polymer composites, hydrogel mechanics, and the mechanical properties of biological structures. She employs innovative methodologies, including data-driven frameworks and experimental approaches, to explore advanced material functionalities and applications.

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MRPI: UC Consortium for Vascular Mechanics and Mechanobiology

Open Date: 2017-01-01

Close Date: 2019-01-01

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Dissecting Mechanotransduction in Real Time: How Do Cells Sense and Respond to Changes in the Physical Environment?

Open Date: 2016-12-01

Close Date: 2019-11-01

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Design and Control of Self-Renewing, Biocompatible and Reconfigurable Materials

Open Date: 2016-10-01

Close Date: 2017-09-01

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MRI: Acquisition of a Fast-scanning Confocal Microscope to Advance Biophysics, Neuroscience and Bioengineering Research and Training

Open Date: 2016-09-01

Close Date: 2019-09-01

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NCS-FO: A microfluidic MEMS approach to study force-induced changes in neurons

Open Date: 2016-08-01

Close Date: 2019-07-01

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Active and passive crosslinking of cytoskeleton scaffolds tune the effects of cell inclusions on composite structure

Latent Thermal Transformation of 3D-Printed Polymer Composite Foams Provides Tailored Mechanical Properties

Data-Driven Framework for the Prediction of PEGDA Hydrogel Mechanics

Hacktive matter: data-driven discovery through hackathon-based cross-disciplinary coding

Evaluating polymerization kinetics using microrheology

Experimental observation of near-wall effects during the puncture of soft solids

Understanding the Response of Poly(ethylene glycol) diacrylate (PEGDA) Hydrogel Networks: A Statistical Mechanics-Based Framework

A Light- and Heat-Seeking Vine-Inspired Robot With Material-Level Responsiveness

Bioinspired Metal–Ligand Networks with Enhanced Stability and Performance: Facile Preparation of Hydroxypyridinone (HOPO)-Functionalized Materials

Modular Synthesis and Patterning of High-Stiffness Networks by Postpolymerization Functionalization with Iron–Catechol Complexes

Molecular-scale substrate anisotropy, crowding and division drive collective behaviours in cell monolayers

Design of Surface-Aligned Main-Chain Liquid-Crystal Networks Prepared under Ambient, Light-Free Conditions Using the Diels–Alder Cycloaddition

Mechanical resilience of the sessile tunicate Botryllus schlosseri

High-throughput microscopy to determine morphology, microrheology, and phase boundaries applied to phase separating coacervates

3D-printed polymer foams maintain stiffness and energy dissipation under repeated loading

A compact rotary magnetic tweezers device for dynamic material analysis

Network structure influences bulk modulus of nearly incompressible filled silicone elastomers

Role of Material Composition in Photothermal Actuation of DASA-Based Polymers

Rational mechanochemical design of Diels–Alder crosslinked biocompatible hydrogels with enhanced properties

Strength of fluid-filled soft composites across the elastofracture length

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Matthew Helgeson

Christopher Barney

Joshua Moon

Seamus Jones

Jennifer Ross

Yimin Luo

Rachel Segalman

Javier Read de Alaniz

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