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ArticleMaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Visco-Hyperelastic Characterization of the Equine Immature Zona Pellucida.

Elisa Ficarella, Mohammad Minooei, Lorenzo Santoro, Elisabetta Toma, Bartolomeo Trentadue, Marco De Spirito, Massimiliano Papi, Catalin I Pruncu, Luciano Lamberti

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Article in Materials (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 41% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Elisa FicarellaDipartimento di Meccanica, Matematica e Management, Politecnico di Bari, 70125 Bari, Italy.
Mohammad MinooeiDipartimento di Meccanica, Matematica e Management, Politecnico di Bari, 70125 Bari, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-5444-0955
Lorenzo SantoroDipartimento di Meccanica, Matematica e Management, Politecnico di Bari, 70125 Bari, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-2614-083X
Elisabetta TomaDipartimento di Meccanica, Matematica e Management, Politecnico di Bari, 70125 Bari, Italy.
Bartolomeo TrentadueDipartimento di Meccanica, Matematica e Management, Politecnico di Bari, 70125 Bari, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-5759-0692
Marco De SpiritoIstituto di Fisica, Università Cattolica del S. Cuore, 00168 Roma, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-4260-5107
Massimiliano PapiIstituto di Fisica, Università Cattolica del S. Cuore, 00168 Roma, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-0029-1309
Catalin I PruncuDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London, Exhibition Rd., London SW7 2AZ, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-4926-2189
Luciano LambertiDipartimento di Meccanica, Matematica e Management, Politecnico di Bari, 70125 Bari, Italy.
Polytechnic University of Bari · ITUniversità Cattolica del Sacro Cuore · ITUniversity of Strathclyde · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This article presents a very detailed study on the mechanical characterization of a highly nonlinear material, the immature equine zona pellucida (ZP) membrane. The ZP is modeled as a visco-hyperelastic soft matter. The Arruda-Boyce constitutive equation and the two-term Prony series are identified as the most suitable models for describing the hyperelastic and viscous components, respectively, of the ZP's mechanical response. Material properties are identified via inverse analysis based on nonlinear optimization which fits nanoindentation curves recorded at different rates. The suitability of the proposed approach is fully demonstrated by the very good agreement between AFM data and numerically reconstructed force-indentation curves. A critical comparison of mechanical behavior of two immature ZP membranes (i.e., equine and porcine ZPs) is also carried out considering the information on the structure of these materials available from electron microscopy investigations documented in the literature.

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atomic force microscopyequine zona pellucidainverse analysisnanoscale mechanical characterizationvisco-hyperelasticity

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PMID33807624
PMCPMC7961360
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