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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Nov 27.
Published in final edited form as: Microsyst Nanoeng. 2015 Jun 29;1(1):15010. doi: 10.1038/micronano.2015.10

Figure 5.

Figure 5

(a) and (b) FEM results showing the von Mises strain distribution in the brain resulting from a 6 μm displacement of the ECM-NEs in the x direction with: (a) a low NE-brain coupling coefficient of 0.04; (b) a perfect bond condition. (c) and (d) FEM results of the strains induced in the brain tissue in response to a 6 μm forward displacement in the axial direction with: (c) a low coupling coefficient of 0.04 and (d) a perfect bond condition. (e) Summary of the resultant strains from the NE tip along the brain–NE interfaces in the axial direction (centerline) of the NEs. (f) Summary of the resultant strains from the NE tip in the brain along the x direction.