Biomechanics Core Facility Publications

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F. Dehli, O. Schless, M. Kaliske, I. Potthof, A. Taoum, M. Fuest and D. Duarte Campos “Biobased photocrosslinkable gelatin-methacrylate hydrogels promote the growth and phenotype maintenance of human corneal keratocytes” Materials Advances, 2025

17

M. Khan, P. Kollenz, M. Fritzenschaft, F. Taheri, F. Colombo, J. W. Blumberg, L. Schlotterose, U. S. Schwarz, A. Leal-Egaña, C. Selhuber-Unkel “Dimensional Memory in Glioblastoma Mechanics: Traction Force Analysis of Cells Cultured in 2D versus 3D Collagen Environments” Bioactive Materials 55 (2026) 515–528

16

Kalkus T., Unterreiner T. V., Schmidt M., Wächter L. D., Schmitt C. R., Mishra A., Selhuber-Unkel, C. "Enabling the Fabrication of Complex Soft Iontronics Using Multi-Material 3D Extrusion Printing" Adv. Sci 202505172

15

G. Lemahieu, P. Moreno-Layseca, T. Hub, C. Bevilacqua, M. Gómez-González, F. Pennarola, F. Colombo, A. E. Massey, L. Barzaghi, A. Palamidessi, L.-L. Homagk, S. F. H. Barnett, A. X. Cartagena-Rivera, C. Selhuber-Unkel, R. Prevedel, X. Trepat, J. P. Spatz, J. Ivaska, G. Scita, E. A. Cavalcanti-Adam "RAB5A promotes active fluid wetting by reprogramming breast cancer spheroid mechanics." Advanced Science, 202503569.

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Walther, T.; Dalaka, E.; Fläschner, G.; Platzman, I.; Pashapour, S.; Emmert, M.; Roca-Cusachs, P.; Trepat, X.; Göpfrich, K. Mechanically Tunable DNA Hydrogel Microparticles for 3D Cellular Systems. bioRxiv 2025

13

Scott, S., Villiou, M., Colombo, F., De La Cruz-Garcia, A., Tydecks, L., Toelke, L., Siemsen, K., Selhuber-Unkel, C.“Dynamic and Reversible Tuning of Hydrogel Viscoelasticity by Transient Polymer Interactions for Controlling Cell Adhesion”Adv. Mater. 2025, 2408616.

12

Antonelli Y., Krüger R., Buehler A., Monavari M., Fuentes-Chandía M., Colombo F., Palmisano R., Boßerhoff A.K, Kappelmann-Fenzl M., Schödel J., Boccaccini A.R., Selhuber-Unkel C., Letort G., Leal-Egaña A. 

“When Mechanical Stress Matters: Generation of Polyploid Giant Cancer Cells in Tumor-Like Microcapsules.” 

Adv. Funct. Mater. 2024, 2311139

11

N. Schwegler, T. Gebert, M. Villiou, F. Colombo, B. Schamberger, C. Selhuber-Unkel, F. Thomas, E. Blasco

"Multimaterial 3D Laser Printing of Cell-Adhesive and Cell-Repellent Hydrogels"

Small 2024, 20, 2401344

10

Afting, C.; Walther, T.; Drozdowski, O. M.; Schlagheck, C.; Schwarz, U. S.; Wittbrodt, J.; Göpfrich, K. 

DNA Microbeads for Spatio-Temporally Controlled Morphogen Release within Organoids.

Nat. Nanotechnol. (2024), s41565-024-01779-y.

09

Guangda Zhu, Nadine von Coelln, Yi Hou, Clara Vazquez-Martel, Christoph A. Spiegel, Petra Tegeder, Eva Blasco

“Digital Light 3D Printing of Double Thermoplastics with Customizable Mechanical Properties and Versatile Reprocessability”

Adv. Funct. Mater. 2024, 202401561

08

Colombo F., Taale M., Taheri F., Villiou M., Debatin T., Dulatahu G., Kollenz P., Schmidt M., Schlagheck C., Wittbrodt J. and Selhuber‐Unkel C. 

"2-photon laser printing to mechanically stimulate multicellular systems in 3D." 

Adv. Funct. Mater. 2024, 2303601.

07

N. Hussain, A. Scholz, T. Spratte, C. Selhuber-Unkel, M. Hirtz and J. Aghassi-Hagmann

"Direct Writing of Liquid Metal Microheaters for Microvalve Applications,"

2023 IEEE International Conference on Flexible and Printable Sensors and Systems (FLEPS), Boston, MA, USA, 2023, pp. 1-4

06

Christoph Giez, Denis Pinkle, Yan Giencke, Jörg Wittlieb, Eva Herbst, Tobias Spratte, Tim Lachnit, Alexander Klimovich, Christine Selhuber-Unkel, Thomas C.G. Bosch

“Multiple neuronal populations control the eating behavior in Hydra and are responsive to microbial signals”

Current Biology,
Volume 33, 2023

05

Taale, M. Schmidt, M.  Taheri, F. Timmermann, M. Selhuber-Unkel, C. 

"A minimalistic, synthetic cell-inspired metamaterial for enabling reversible strain-stiffening" 

Adv. Mater. Technol., 2023.

04

M. Kurth, U. Barayeu, H. Gharibi, A. Kuzhelev, K. Riedmiller, J. Zilke, K. Noack, V. Denysenkov, R. Kappl, T. F. Prisner, R. A. Zubarev, T. P. Dick, F. Gräter

"DOPA Residues Endow Collagen with Radical Scavenging Capacity"

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e202216610

03

Rennekamp, B.; Karfusehr, C.; Kurth, M.; Ünal, A.; Monego, D.; Riedmiller, K.; Gryn’ova, G.; Hudson, D. M.; Gräter, F. 

“Collagen Breaks at Weak Sacrificial Bonds Taming Its Mechanoradicals.”

 Nature communications 2023, 14 (1)

 

02

Colombo, F., Villiou, M., Taheri, F., Fröhlich, L., Taale, M., Albert, V., Jiang, Q. and Selhuber-Unkel, C.

“Fluctuations of Dry and Total Mass of Cells Exposed to Different Molecular Weights of Polyethylene Glycol”

Adv. NanoBiomed Res., 3: 2200156

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Spratte T; Geiger, S; Colombo, F; Mishra, A; Taale, M; Hsu, LY; Blasco, E; Selhuber-Unkel, C. 

"Increasing the Efficiency of Thermoresponsive Actuation at the Microscale by Direct Laser Writing of pNIPAM". 

Adv. Mater. Technol., 2022, 2200714.