Research

Nanomechanics of Keloid Scar Tissue

Principal investigator: Himadri GUPTA
Funding source(s): PhD studentship
 Start: 01-09-2017  /  End: 31-03-2021
Directly incurred staff: Yuezhou Zhang
Wound healing and hypertrophic scarring are affected by biomechanical forces in the extracellular matrix, but how structural alterations at the nano- and microscale are linked to mechanics is not clear. Here, we study the nanoscale mechanics of keloids (linked to hypertrophic scarring), using in situ SAXS with micromechanics.