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Mattia Bacca
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Latest papers
Contraction of blood clots occurs during hemostasis and hemorrhagic shock to promote closure of lacerations.
Biomaterials · 2026
A Metamaterial Buckling-Assisted Surface-Acoustic-Wave Enabled Sensor (mBASES) for Versatile and Ultrasensitive Biomarker Detection.
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026
Hyperelastic characterization via deep indentation.
Soft matter · 2025 · senior author
Latest funding
- $25,000
Cytoskeletal Energetics and Mechanics
NSERC · 2024 · Principal investigator
- $150,000
Quantification of Flow and Strain in Soft Materials
NSERC · 2024 · Co-investigator
- $236,780
In-vitro and In-vivo trials on the aerosolized rhACE2 intranasal delivery approach for treating mild COVID-19 system patients
SSHRC · 2021 · Co-investigator
17 publications.
Contraction of blood clots occurs during hemostasis and hemorrhagic shock to promote closure of lacerations.
Ferraresso M, Ali-Mohamad N, Cau MF, Seadler M, Turner H, Ferraresso F, Zhang Y, Carver TW, Nagaswami C, Beckett A, Peng HT, Litvinov RI, Weisel JW, Bacca M, Kastrup CJ
A Metamaterial Buckling-Assisted Surface-Acoustic-Wave Enabled Sensor (mBASES) for Versatile and Ultrasensitive Biomarker Detection.
Li X, Ju X, Zhou W, Song Y, Pan J, He J, Yang R, Bacca M, Zhao Y, Liu Y, Chen X, Cheng H, Liu Q, Hsia KJ
Hyperelastic characterization via deep indentation.
Shojaeifard M, Bacca M
Behavioural biomechanics: leaf-cutter ant cutting behaviour depends on leaf edge geometry.
Püffel F, Kang V, Yap M, Shojaeifard M, Bacca M, Labonte D
Morphological trapping of neurotransmitters in synaptic clefts: A new dimension in neural plasticity.
Kaytanli B, Bacca M
Machine learning-based optimal design of fibrillar adhesives.
Shojaeifard M, Ferraresso M, Lucantonio A, Bacca M
Cold Plasma for the Modification of the Surface Roughness of Microparticles.
Oguzlu H, Baldelli A, Mohammadi X, Kong A, Bacca M, Pratap-Singh A
Cutting soft matter: scaling relations controlled by toughness, friction, and wear.
Antarvedi Goda B, Ma Z, Fregonese S, Bacca M
Force decomposition and toughness estimation from puncture experiments in soft solids.
Shrestha P, Geffner C, Jaffey M, Wu Z, Iapichino M, Bacca M, Stoeber B
Quantifying the Impact of Cancer on the Viscoelastic Properties of the Prostate Gland using a Quasi-Linear Viscoelastic Model.
Helisaz H, Belanger E, Black P, Bacca M, Chiao M
Cytoskeletal Energetics and Mechanics
Principal investigators: Bacca, Mattia M
Keywords: biomechanics; biophysics; mechanobology; soft tissue
Quantification of Flow and Strain in Soft Materials
Principal investigators: Stoeber, Boris
Keywords: flow fields; microfluidics; poroelasticity; soft solids; strain fields
In-vitro and In-vivo trials on the aerosolized rhACE2 intranasal delivery approach for treating mild COVID-19 system patients
Principal investigators: Pratap Singh, Anubhav
Keywords: Particle engineering Nasal inhaler Drug delivery Bioactive compound encapsulation SARS-CoV-2 Airborne viruses Recombinant receptor Spray freeze drying In-vivo In-vitro
Development of aerosolized encapsulated recombinant ACE2 for treating COVID-19 early symptom patients_x000d_ _x000d_ _x000d_ _x000d_
Principal investigators: Pratap Singh, Anubhav
The Energetics of Life: a new perspective in Cytoskeletal Mechanics
Principal investigators: Bacca, Mattia
Keywords: Mechanobiology; Active Soft Matter; Cytoskeletal Mechanics;Molecular Motors; Energetics; Cell; Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics; Biomechanics; Biochemistry; Molecular Biology
Contact biomechanics, adhesion and friction of human skin
Principal investigators: Bacca, Mattia
Advanced bio-inspired adhesive materials
Principal investigators: Bacca, Mattia
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Mu Chiao and Mattia Bacca: 2 shared papers
- Boris Stoeber and Mattia Bacca: 1 shared paper
- Peter Black and Mu Chiao: 1 shared paper
- Peter Black and Mattia Bacca: 1 shared paper
- Mechanical Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering (2/3), Electrical and Computer Engineering (1/3)
- Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
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