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15 - General Engineering
University of Edinburgh (joint submission with Heriot-Watt University)
Nanomechanics of Biocompatible Hollow Thin-Shell Polymer Microspheres
This paper was the culmination of an EPSRC project (GR/T21639/01, £600k) that was the first to introduce the AFM technique to microbubble studies. The mechanical properties of microbubbles are of paramount importance for their biomedical applications, e.g. for ultra-sound imaging and drug/gene delivery. The methodology has been adopted by other groups: , USA, DoI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2013.2594;UK, DoI:10.1039/c1sm06578e; and is included in a recent review, DoI: 10.3109/02652048.2011.646331. It has led to several invited talks: e.g. Microbubble Symposium, Leeds, UK, http://lin.leeds.ac.uk/blog/10271/leeds_microbubble_symposium_-_16th_17th_july_2012.html; UK Scanning Probe Microscopy 2010, Microscience 2010, http://www.rms.org.uk/Resources/Royal%20Microscopical%20Society/2%20Programme%20for%20booklet.pdf).
