N. Munding, M. Fladung, Y. Chen, M. Hippler, A.D. Ho, M. Wegener, M. Bastmeyer, and M. Tanaka

Adv. Funct. Mater. 34, 3D Matter Made to Order; doi:10.1002/adfm.202470111

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Mechanical Metamaterials

In article number 2301133, Martin Wegener, Martin Bastmeyer, Motomu Tanaka, and co-workers design and manufacture microstructured bio-metamaterials based on an elastic photoresist and two-photon laser printing. The differential responses of human mesenchymal stem cells, both on the cellular level and the sub-cellular level, correlate with the calculated effective elastic properties of the bio-metamaterials, suggesting the potential of bio-metamaterials towards mechanical regulation of cells by the arrangement of unit cells.