Anisotropy, the directional differences in light scattering that materials exhibit, is a result of the structure. The optical properties have historically been challenging to measure and model ...

McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, United States Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, ...

pli=1 We introduce a computational method and a user-friendly code with a terminal-based graphical user interface (GUI), named ElATools, developed to analyze anisotropic elastic properties ...

Especially, for this special issue, we introduce several research works published recently from our research group that consider the anisotropy of the matrix ... physical properties. We begin with a ...

Using direct biophysical measurements of elongating Drosophila egg chambers, we document robust mechanical anisotropy in the ECM-based basement membrane (BM) but not in the underlying epithelium.