THEMED ARTICLE ON MECHANICAL ENVIRONMENTS OF LIVING CELLS

1. Mechanical microenvironments of living cells：a critical frontier in mechanobiology
2. Tissue cell differentiation and multicellular evolution via cytoskeletal stiffening in mechanically stressed microenvironments
3. Mechanical force drives the polarization and orientation of cells
4. Nuclear mechanics during and after constricted migration
5. Effects of hypoxia on the biological behavior of MSCs seeded in demineralized bone scaffolds with different stiffness
6. Imaging oxygen microenvironment in hydrogel microwell array
7. Fabrication of three-dimensional islet models by the geometry-controlled hanging-drop method
8. Volumetric response of an ellipsoidal liquid inclusion：implications for cell mechanobiology
9. Diffusive-stochastic-viscoelastic model for specific adhesion of viscoelastic solids via molecular bonds
10. Harnessing structural instability for cell durotaxis
11. Molecular simulation of diffusion of rigidity-tuned nanoparticles in biological hydrogels

FLUID MECHANICS

1. Direct numerical simulation of a turbulent boundary layer over an anisotropic compliant wall
2. Numerical solutions of 2-D steady compressible natural convection using high-order flux reconstruction
3. Physical mechanism for origin of streamwise vortices in mode A of a square-section cylinder

SOLID MECHANICS

1. Influence of stress and high-temperature treatment on the permeability evolution behavior of sandstone
2. Topology optimization of continuum structures considering damage based on independent continuous mapping method
3. Surface evolution caused by curvature driven forces based on natural exponential pair potential

1. Mechanical microenvironments as key cellular regulator in the liver
2. Buckling of filamentous actin bundles in filopodial protrusion