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2025

Candan, S., Barton, V., Yang. H., Lopez-Camara, C.F., Fortugno, P., Wiggers, H., Eriten, M., Andrews, J., Notbohm, J., Franck, C., “Design of a Simple and Rugged Soft Polydimethylsiloxane-Carbon Nanotube-Graphene-Based Composite Sensor”, Advanced Materials Technologies, 2025. [PDF]

Tripathi, A., Malave, S., Wang, Y., Canizales, M. A., Zhu, Z., Fawzi, A., Turcsanyi, S., Brooks, A., Kesari, H., Ferrazzano, P., Snedden, T.R., Franck, C., Wright Carlsen, R., “An Instrumented Headband Device for Accurate Head Kinematics Measurements in Soccer”, Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, 2025. [PDF]

Nakarmi, S., Wang, Y., Fawzi, A.L., Franck, C., Wright Carlsen, R., “Estimating Brain Injury Risk from Shipborne Underwater Blasts using a High-fidelity Finite Element Head Model”, Military Medicine, 2025. [PDF]

Adebowale, K., Allan, C., Ha, B., Saraswathibhatia, A., Zhu, J., Indana, D., Popescu, M., Demirdjian, S., Martinez, H.A., Yang, J., Bassik, M.C., Franck, C., Bollyky, P.L., Chaudhuri, O., “Monocytes use Protrusive Forces to Generate Migration Paths in Viscoelastic Collagen-based Extracellular Matrices”, PNAS, 2025. [PDF]

Liang, N.W., Milesh, L., Buttram, K.N., Park, J.L., Zhang, J., Summey, L.A., Franck, C., Beebe, D.J., Le, H.D., Li, C., “Under-Oil Neuronal Cell Culture: Enhanced System Stability, Yield, and Modulated Oxygen Environment”, Neuroscience Methods, 2025. [PDF]

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2024

Fawzi, A.L., Franck, C., “Low level blasts from heavy weapons can cause traumatic brain injury”, The Conversation, 2024.[PDF]

Yang, J., McGhee, A., Radtke, G., Rodriguez Jr., M., Franck, C., “Estimating Viscoelastic, Soft Material Properties using a Modified Rayleigh Cavitation Bubble Collapse Time”, Physics of Fluids, 2024.[PDF]

Tao, J., Sun, X., Franck, C., “Experimental Approach for Characterizing the Nonlinear, Time- and Temperature-dependent Constitutive Response of Open-cell Polyurethane Foams”, Strain, 2024. [PDF]

Gonzalez-Cruz, R.D., Wan, Y., Calvao, D., Burgess, A., Renken, W., Vecchio, F., Franck, C., Kesari, H., Hoffman-Kim, D., “Cortical Spheroids Show Strain-dependent Cell Viability Loss and Neurite Disruption Following Sustained Compression Injury”, Plos One, 2024. [PDF]

Bremer-Sai, E.C., Yang, J., McGhee, A., Franck, C., “Ballistic and Blast-relevant, High-rate Material Properties of Physically and Chemically Crosslinked Hydrogels, Experimental Mechanics, 2024. [PDF]

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2023

Summey, L., Zhang, J., Landauer, A.K., Sergay, J., Yang, J., Daul, A., Tao, J., Park, J., McGhee, A., Franck, C., “Open Source, Intermediate Strain-Rate Tensile Impact Device for Soft Materials and Cell Culture Systems”, Experimental Mechanics, 2023. [PDF]

Ramey-Ward, A., Dong, Y., Yang, J., Ogasawara, H., Bremer-Sai, E.C., Brazhkina, O., Franck, C., Davis, M. E., Salaita, K., “An Optomechanically Actuated Hydrogel Platform for Cell Stimulation with Spatial and Temporal Resolution” , ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering, 2023.  [PDF]

Witt, H., Yan, Z., Henann, D.L., Franck, C., Reichner, J.,”Mechanosensitive traction force generation is regulated by neutrophil activation state”, Scientific Reports, 2023.  [PDF]

Fawzi, A.L., Franck, C., “Beyond symptomatic diagnosis of mild traumatic brain injury”, Concussion, in 2023. [PDF ]

Tzoumaka, A., Yang, J., Buyukozturk, S., Franck, C., Henann, D.L.,” Modeling high strain-rate microcavitation in soft materials: The role of material behavior in bubble dynamics”, Soft Matter, 2023. [PDF]

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2022

McGhee, A., Yang, J., Bremer, E.C., Xu, Z., Cramer III, H.C., Estrada, J.B.,  Henann, D.L., Franck, C., “High-Speed, Full-Field Deformation Measurements Near Inertial Microcavitation Bubbles Inside Viscoelastic Hydrogels”, Experimental Mechanics, 2022. [PDF ]

Yang, J., Landauer, A.K., Buyukozturk, S., Zhang, J., Summey, L., McGhee, A., Fu, M.K., Dabiri, J.O., Franck, C.” SerialTrack: ScalE and rotation invariant augmented Lagrangian particle tracking”, SoftwareX, 2022. [PDF ]

Colasurdo, M., Nieves, E.B., Fernandez-Yague, M.A., Franck, C., Garcia, A. J., “Adhesive Peptide and Polymer Density Modulate 3D Cell Traction Forces within Synthetic Hydrogels”, Biomaterials, 2022. [PDF ]

Buyukozturk, S., Landauer, A.K., Zhang, J., Summey, L. A., Chukwu, A. N., , Franck, C.” High-speed, 3D volumetric displacement and strain mapping in soft materials using Light Field Microscopy”, Experimental Mechanics, 2022. [PDF ]

Yang, J., Rubino, J., Ma, Z., Tao, J., Yin, Y., McGhee, A., Pan, W., Franck, C., “Spatiotemporally Adaptive Quadtree mesh (STAQ) Digital Image Correlation for resolving large deformations around complex geometries and discontinuities”, Experimental Mechanics, 2022. [PDF ]

Buyukozturk, S., Spratt, J.-S., Henann, D.L., Colonius, T.,  Franck, C.,” Particle‐Assisted Laser‐Induced Inertial Cavitation for High Strain‐Rate Soft Material Characterization”, Experimental Mechanics, 2022. [PDF ]

Li, X., Tao, J., Landauer, A.K., Franck, C., Henann, D.L.,”Large-deformation constitutive modeling of viscoelastic foams: Application to a closed-cell foam material”, JMPS, 2022. [PDF]

Yang, J, Cramer III, H.C., Bremer, E.C., Buyukozturk, S., Yin, Y., Franck, C.,” Mechanical Characterization of Agarose Hydrogels and their Inherent Dynamic Instabilities at Ballistic to Ultra-high Strain-rates via Inertial Microcavitation”, Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2022. [ PDF ]

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2021

Yang, J, Tzoumaka, A., Muramaki, K., Johnsen, E., Henann, D.L., Franck, C.,” Predicting Complex Non-spherical Instability Shapes of Inertial Cavitation Bubbles in Viscoelastic Materials”, Physical Review E, 2021.  [ PDF ]

Estrada, J.B., Cramer III, H. C., Scimone, M. T., Buyukozturk, S., Franck, C., “Neural Cell Injury Pathology due to High-rate Mechanical Loading”, Brain Multiphysics, 2021. [ PDF ]

Terpsma, R., Wright Carlsen, R., Szalkowski, R., Malave, S., Fawzi, A. L., Franck, C., Hovey, C., “Head Impact Modeling to Support a Rotational Combat Helmet Drop Test”, Military Medicine, 2021.​ [PDF]

Watson, A. W., Grant, A. D., Parker, S. S., Harman, M. W., and Roman, M. R., Uhlorn, B. L., Gowan, C., Castro-Portuguez, R., Stolze, L. K.,  Franck, C., Cusanovich, D. A., Padi, M., Romanoski, C. E., Mouneimne, G., “Breast Tumor Stiffness Instructs Bone Metastasis Via Mechanical Memory”, Cell Reports, 2021. [PDF]

Yang, J., Tao, J., Franck, C., “Smart Digital Image Correlation Patterns via 3D Printing”, Experimental Mechanics, 2021. [PDF]

Spratt, J.-S., Rodriguez, M., Schmidmayer, K., Bryngelson, S.H., Yang, J., Franck, C., Colonius, T., ”Characterizing viscoelastic materials via ensemble-based data assimilation of bubble collapse observations”, JMPS, 2021. [PDF]

Wright-Carlsen, R., Fawzi, A.L., Wan, Y., Kesari, H., Franck, C., “A quantitative relationship between rotational head kinematics and brain tissue strain from a 2D parametric finite element analysis”, Brain Multiphysics, 2021. [ PDF ]

Mancia, L., Yang, J., Spratt, J.S., Sukovich, J.R., Xu, Z., Colonius, T., Franck, C., Johnsen, E., “Acoustic Cavitation Rheometry”, Soft Matter, 2021. [ PDF ]

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2020

Hazlett, L., Landauer, A.K., Patel, M., Witt, H.A., Yang, J., Reichner, J.S., Franck, C.,”Epifluorescence-based three-dimensional traction force microscopy”, Scientific Reports, 2020. [ PDF ]

Guasto, J.S., Estrada, J.B., Menolascina, F., Burton, L.J., Patel, M., Franck, C., Hosoi, A.E., Zimmer, R.K., Stocker, R.,”Flagellar kinematics reveals the role of environment in shaping sperm motility”, Royal Society Interface, 2020. [PDF]

Yang, J., Cramer III, H.C., Franck, C.,”Extracting non-linear viscoelastic material properties from violently-collapsing cavitation bubbles”, Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2020. [ PDF ]

Yang, J., Hazlett, L., Landauer, A.K., Franck, C.,”Augmented Lagrangian Digital Volume Correlation (ALDVC)”, Experimental Mechanics, 2020. [ PDF ]

Sadick, J.S., Crawford, L.A., Cramer III, H.C., Franck, C., Liddelow, S.A., Darling, E.M.,”Generating cell type-specific protein signatures from non-symptomatic and diseased tissues”, Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 2020. [PDF]

Scimone, M.T., Cramer III, H.C., Hopkins, P., Estrada, J.B., Franck, C.,”Application of mild hypothermia successfully mitigates neural injury in a 3D in-vitro model of traumatic brain injury”, PLoS One, 15(4), 2020. [PDF]

Leggett, S.E., Patel, M., Valentin, T.M., Gamboa, L., Khoo, A.S., Williams, E.K., Franck, C., Wong, I.Y.,”Mechanophenotyping of 3D Multicellular Clusters using Displacement Arrays of Rendered Tractions”, PNAS, 2020. [PDF]

Wilson, Z.S., Witt, H., Hazlett, L., Harman, M., Neumann, B.M., Whitman, A., Patel, M., Ross, R.S., Franck, C., Reichner, J.S., Lefort, C.T., “Context-Dependent Role of Vinculin in Neutrophil Adhesion, Motility and Trafficking”, Scientific Reports, 2020. [ PDF ]

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2019

Mancia, L., Vlaisavljevich, E., Yousefi, N., Rodriguez, M., Ziemlewicz, T.J., Lee, F. L., Henann, D., Franck, C., Xu, Z. and Johnsen, E.,”Modeling tissue-selective cavitation damage”, Phys. Med. Biol., 2019. [PDF]

Landauer, A.K., Li, X., Franck, C., Henann, D.L.,”Experimental characterization and hyperelastic constitutive modeling of open-cell elastomeric foams”, JMPS, 2019. [PDF]

Wilson, C.T., Hall, T. L., Johnsen, E., Mancia, L., Rodriguez, M., Lundt, J.E., Colonius, T., Henann, D.L., Franck, C., Xu, Z., and Sukovich, J.R., “Comparative study of the dynamics of laser and acoustically generated bubbles in viscoelastic media”, Phys. Rev. E, 2019. [PDF]

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2018

Scimone, M.T., Cramer III, H.C., Bar-Kochba, E., Amezcua, R., Estrada, J.B., Franck, C.,”Modular approach for resolving and mapping complex neural and other cellular structures and their associated deformation fields in three dimensions”, Nat. Protocols, 2018. [PDF]

Valentin, T.M., Landauer, A.K., Morales, L.C., DuBois, E.M., Shukla, S., Liu, M., Stephens, L.H., Franck, C., Chen, P.Y., Wong, I.Y.,”Alginate-graphene oxide hydrogels with enhanced ionic tunability and chemomechanical stability for light-directed 3D printing”, Carbon, 2018. [PDF]

Ando, T., Bhamidimarri, S.P., Brending, N., Colin-York., H., Collinson, L., De Jonge, N., de Pablo, P.J., Debroye, E., Eggeling, C., Franck, C., Fritzsche, M., Gerritsen, H., Giepmans, B.N.G., Grunewald, K., Hofkens, J., Hoogenboom, J.P., Janssen, K.P.F., Kaufman, R., Klumpermann, J., Kurniawan, N., Kusch, J., Liv, N., Parekh, V., Peckys, D.B., Rehfeldt, F., Reutens, D.C., Roeffaers, M.B.J., Salditt, T., Schaap, I.A.T., Schwarz, U.S., Verkade, P., Vogel, M.W., Wagner, R., Winterhalter, M., Yuan, H., Zifarelli, G.,”The 2018 Correlative Microscopy Techniques Roadmap”, Journal of Physics D, 2018. [PDF]

Patel, M., Leggett, S.E., Landauer, A.K., Wong, I.Y., Franck, C.,”Rapid, Topology-based Particle Tracking for High-resolution Measurements of Large Complex 3D Motion Fields”, Scientific Reports, 2018. [PDF]

Landauer, A.K., Patel, M., Henann, D., Franck, C.,”A q-Factor-Based Digital Image Correlation Algorithm (qDIC) for Resolving Finite Deformations with Degenerate Speckle Patterns”, Experimental Mechanics, 2018. [PDF]

Estrada, J.B., Barajas, C., Henann, D., Johnsen, E., Franck, C.,”High strain-rate soft material characterization via inertial cavitation”, JMPS, 2018. [PDF]

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2017

Franck, C.,“Microcavitation: the key to modeling blast traumatic brain injury?”, Concussion, 2017. [PDF]

Owen, L.M., Adhikari, A.S., Patel, M., Grimmer, P., Leijnse, N., Kim, M.C., Notbohm, J., Franck, C., Dunn, A.R. “A cytoskeletal clutch mediates cellular force transmission in a soft, 3D extracellular matrix”, Molecular Biology of the Cell, 2017. [PDF]

Midgett, D.E., Pease, M.E., Jefferys, J.L., Patel, M., Franck, C., Quigley, H.A., Nguyen, T.D., “The Pressure-Induced Deformation Response of the Human Lamina Cribrosa: Analysis of Regional Variations”, Acta Biomaterialia, 2017. [PDF]

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2016

Bar-Kochba, E., Scimone, M., Estrada, J.B., Franck, C.,”Strain and rate-dependent neuronal injury in a 3D in vitro compression model of TBI”, Scientific Reports, 2016. [PDF]

Stout, D.A., Bar-Kochba, E., Estrada, J.B., Toyjanova, J., Kesari, H., Reichner, J.S., Franck, C.,”Mean deformation metrics for quantifying 3D cell-matrix interactions without requiring information about matrix material properties”, PNAS, 2016. [PDF]

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2015

Schell, J.Y., Wilks, B.T., Patel, M., Franck, C., Chalivendra, V.B., Cuo, X., Shenoy, V.B., Morgan, J.”Harnessing cellular-derived forces in self-assembled microtissues to control the synthesis and alignment of ECM”, Biomaterials, Volume 77, Page 120-129, 2015. [PDF]

Poellman, M., Estrada, J.B., Boudou, T. Berent, Z., Franck, C., Wagoner-Johnson, A.,“Differences in morphology and traction generation of cell lines representing different stages of osteogenesis”, Journal Biomechanical of Engineering, 137(12), 2015. [PDF]

Estrada, J.B., Franck, C.,”Intuitive Interface for the Quantitative Evaluation of Speckle Patterns for Use in Digital Image and Volume Correlation Techniques”, J. Applied Mechanics, 2015. [PDF]

Franck, J.,Blume, J., Crisco, J., Franck, C.,”Extractiong Time-accurate Acceleration Vectors from Non-trivial Accelerometer Arrangements”, J. Biomechanical Engineering, 2015. [PDF]

Stout, D.A., Toyjanova, J., Franck, C.,”Planar Diffusion System to Investigate Chemotaxis in a 3D Collagen Matrix”, J.Visual Experiments, 2015. [PDF]

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2014

Toyjanova, J., Flores-Cortez, E., Reichner, J.S., Franck, C.,”Matrix Confinement Plays a Pivotal Role in Regulating Neutrophil-generated Tractions, Speed and Integrin Utilization”, J. Biological Chemistry, 2014. [PDF]

Toyjanova, J., Hannen, E., Bar-Kochba, E., Darling, E., Hennan, D., Franck, C.,”3D Viscoelastic Traction Force Microscopy”, Soft Matter, 10 (40), 8095 – 8106, 2014. [PDF]

Morse, J., Franck, J., J., Crisco, J., Franck, C., “An Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Head Accelerations due to Stick Impacts in Girls’Lacrosse”, Annals of Biomedical Engineering, DOI: 10.1007/s10439-014-1091-8, 2014. [PDF]

Lopez-Fagundo, C., Bar-Kochba, E., Livi, L., Hoffman-Kim, D., Franck, C.,”3D Traction Forces of Schwann Cells on Compliant Substrates”, Royal Society Interface, 2014 11, 20140247, 2014. [PDF]

Bar-Kochba, E., Toyjanova, J., Andrews, E., Kim, K.S., Franck, C.,”A Fast Iterative Digital Volume Correlation Technique for Large Deformation Measurements”, Experimental Mechanics, 2014. [PDF]

Toyjanova, J., Bar-Kochba, E., Lopez-Fagundo, C., Reichner, J., Hoffman-Kim, D., Franck, C., ”High Resolution, Large Deformation 3D Traction Force Microscopy”, PLoS One, 9(4), e:90976, 1-12, 2014. [PDF]

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2011

Ryu, S., Franck, C., “In vitro Hydrodynamic Lateral Force Calibration of AFM Colloidal Probes”, Langmuir, 2011, 27 (21), pp 13390–13399. [PDF]

Hemphill, M.A., Dabiri, B.E., Gabriele, S., Kerscher, L., Franck, C., Goss, J.A., Alford, P.W., Parker, K.K., “A Role for Integrins and the Cytoskeleton in Blast-induced Diffuse Axonal Injury”, PLoS One, 6(7), e: 22899, 1-11, 2011. [PDF]

Franck, C., Maskarinec, S.A., Tirrell, D.A., Ravichandran, G., “Three-dimensional Traction Force Microscopy: A New Tool for Quantifying Cell-Matrix Interactions,” PLoS One 6(3): e17833, 2011. [PDF]

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2009

Franck, C., Maskarinec, S.A., Ravichandran, C., Tirrell, D.A., “Quantifying Cellular Traction Forces in Three Dimensions,” PNAS, 106:22108 – 22113, 2009. [PDF]

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2008

Nowatzki, P.J., Franck, C., Ravichandran, G. Tirrell, D.A., “Characterization of Mechanically Tunable Photosensitive Artificial Protein Thin Films by Nanoindentation,” Macromolecules, 41(5), 1839-1845, 2008. [PDF]

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2007

Franck, C., Hong, S., Maskarinec, S.A., Tirrell, D.A., Ravichandran, G., “Three-Dimensional Full-Field Measurements of Large Deformations in Soft Materials using Confocal Microscopy and Digital Volume Correlation,” Experimental Mechanics, 47, 427-438, 2007. [PDF]

Carrico, I.S., Maskarinec, S.A., Heilshorn, S.C., Mock, M.L., Liu, J.C., Nowatzki, P.J., Franck, C., Ravichandran, G., Tirrell, D.A., “Lithographic Patterning of Photoreactive Cell-Adhesive Proteins,” Journal of American Chemical Society, 129, 4874-4875, 2007. [PDF]

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2006

Franck, C., Bhattacharya, K., Ravichandran, G., “Characterization of Domain Walls in BaTiO3 Using Simultaneous Atomic Force and Piezo Response Force Microscopy,” Applied Physics Letters, 88, 102907 (1-3), 2006. [PDF]

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