Measuring shear strength of soft-tissue
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Muzhou Wang; Julia A. Kornfield
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Article
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2012
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract A method for evaluating strength of adhesives for hydrogels and soft tissues is presented. Quantitative measurements of shear strength for applications in tissue engineering and biomedicine are performed in torsion using a rheometer. Small, disk shaped specimens of soft biological tissu