Patents and Book Chapters

  • Patents (in Publications):
    • 1. Inventors: Namrata Gundiah (IISc), Nidheesh Puliyath (IISc), Chaitanya Gaikwad (IISc) and Aritra Chatterjee (IISc), on "Stretching of cells and tissues" (Application number 202041056145 filed 23 December, 2020).

    2. Inventors: Namrata Gundiah, Nidheesh Puliyath, Aritra Chatterjee, Chaitanya Gaikwad (IISc, Bangalore) on “A planar biaxial microscope mountable stretcher for cells and tissues” (December, 2020)

    3. Inventors: Pramod Pullarkat (RRI), Renu Vishavkarma (RRI), Namrata Gundiah (IISc), Nimesh Chahare (IISc) on “A microscope mountable fluid shear device" (Docket number 34928 filed September, 2016).

  • Book Chapter:
    Jhun, CS, Gundiah, N*, Sun, K, Sabbah, HN, Tseng, E, Ratcliffe, MB, Guccione, JM, (2010) Chapter 13: '/Passive Left Ventricular Constraint Devices/', In Ratcliffe, MB, Guccione, JM and Kassab, GS (Editors) *Computational Cardiovascular Mechanics: Modeling and Applications in Heart Failure*.

    • Journal Publications

    2022

    1. Shrivastava, A., and Gundiah, N.*, Methylglyoxal crosslinking increases the fracture toughness of gelatin hydrogels. Mechanics of Materials (2023).

    2. Chatterjee, A., Kondaiah, P. and Gundiah, N.*, Stress fiber growth and remodeling determines cellular morphomechanics under uniaxial cyclic stretch. Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology

    3. Paddillaya, N., Ingale, K., Gaikwad, C., Saini, D., Pullarkat, P.A., Kondaiah, P., Menon, G. and Gundiah, N.*, Cell adhesion strength and tractions are mechano-diagnostic features of cellular invasiveness. Soft Matter

      4. 2021

      1. Chatterjee, A., Chahare, N.R., Kondaiah, P. and Gundiah, N.*, 2021. Role of fiber orientations in the mechanics of bioinspired fiber-reinforced elastomers. Soft Robotics, 8(6), pp.640-650.

      2. 1Khaja Moinuddin, S.B.M., 1Chatterjee, A., Bhat, M.R., Harusampath, D. and Gundiah, N.*, Mechanical characterization of a woven multi-layered hyperelastic composite laminate. (1: equal contribution)

      3. Rao, S., Dey, S. and Gundiah, N.*, Density fluctuations and cable forces direct leader cell plasticity during collective epithelial monolayer migrations. (for submission shortly)

        4. 2020

        1. Jaddivada, S. and Gundiah, N.*, Physical biology of cell-substrate interactions under cyclic stretch, bioRxiv/2020/350959 (in review).

        2. Chatterjee, A., Chahare, N., Kondaiah, P., Gundiah, N.*, Role of fiber orientations in the mechanics of bioinspired fiber reinforced elastomers, Soft Robotics (in press) (2020).

        3. Gundiah, N.* and Jaddivada, S., Making the cut: mechanics of cutting and steering of insect probes, Curr. Op. Insect Sci (in press) (2020).

        4. Kundanati, L., Chahare, N., Abhijith, K.G., Jaddivada, S., Sridhar, R., Pugno, N.M., Gundiah, N.*, Cutting mechanics of wood by beetle larval mandibles, J. Mech. Behav. Biomed. Matls., (2020).

        5. Krishna, V.C., Suja, V.C., Watton, P. N., Arakeri, J. H., Gundiah, N.*, Shear stress rosettes capture the complex flow physics in diseased arteries, J. Biomech., (2020) 104 (10921).

          6. 2019

          1. P. Bhogal, G. Pederzani, A. Grytsan, Y. Loh, P. A. Brouwer, T. Andersson, N. Gundiah, A.M. Robertson, P.N. Watton, M.Soderman, The Unexplained success of stentplasty vasoplasm treatment : Insights using Mechanistic Mathematical Modeling, Clin. Neuroradiol, 2019

          2. Paddillaya, N, Mishra, A., Kondaiah, P., Pullarkat, P., Menon, G.I., Gundiah, N.*,'Biophysics of cell-substrate interactions under shear', Frontiers : Cell Adhesion and Migration, 2019.

            3. 2018

            1. Kulkarni, A., Chatterjee, A., Kondaiah, P., & Gundiah, N. (2018). TGF-β induces changes in breast cancer cell deformability. Physical Biology.

            2. Kulkarni, A. H., Ghosh, P., Seetharaman, A., Kondaiah, P., & Gundiah, N. (2018). Traction cytometry: regularization in the Fourier approach and comparisons with finite element method. Soft Matter, 14Kulkarni(23), 4687–4695.

            3. AR Babu, N Gundiah (2018). Contributions of network topological structures to the mechanical properties of PDMS elastomers, Materials Research Express

            2017

            1. Rathod, M.L., Pareek, N., Agrawal, S.A., Jaddivada, S., Lee, D. W., Gundiah, N.*, ‘Engineered ridge and micropillar array detectors to quantify the directional migration of fibroblasts’, RSC Advances, (2017) 7, 51436.

            2. Deora, T., Gundiah, N., Sane, S.P.*, ‘Mechanics of the thorax in flying insects’, J. Exp. Biol. (2017), 220, 1382-95 doi :10.1242jeb.128363.

            3. Krishna, V.C., Gundiah, N., Arakeri, J. H.* "Separations and secondary structures due to unsteady flow in a curved pipe" J. Fluid Mechanics. accepted, January, 2017.

            4. S Dandapani, N Gundiah, X Luo, P Watton,'A constrained mixture model of the left ventricle and its application to simulating myocardial infarction',Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computational,2017

            5. T Deora, A Vardhan, S Naik, A Ghosh, N Gundiah, SP Sane, 'Mechanics of the Wing Hinge in Flies',INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY 57, E242-E242

            2016

            1. Kollimada, SA, Kulkarni, AH, Ravan, A., Gundiah, N.*, (2016) "Advancing edge speeds of epithelial monolayers depend on their initial confining geometry", Plos One, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0153471.

            2. Kundanati, L.*, Singh, S.K., Mandal, B.B., Murthy, T.G., Gundiah, N., Pugno, N.M.*, "Fabrication and mechanical characterization of hydrogel infused network silk scaffolds", Int. J. Mol. Sc., (2016), 17, 1631 ; doi :10.3390/ijms17101631.

            3. Arya, A.D., Hallur, P.M., Karkisaval, A.G., Gudipati, A., Rajendran, S., Dhavale, V., Ramachandran, B., Jayaprakash, A., Gundiah, N., Chaubey, A.* "Gelatin methacrylate hydrogels as biomimetic three-dimensional matrices for modeling breast cancer invasion and chemoresponse in vitro" , ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces (2016), 8, 22005-22017 ; doi : 10.1021/acsami.6b06309.

            2015

            1. Babu, A. R. Byju, A. G. and Gundiah, N.* (2015),"Biomechanical properties of human ascending thoracic aortic dissections", in press J. Biomechanical Engineering (ASME Journal).

            2014

            1. Khandelwal, P., Agrawal, S., Namboothiry, M., Gundiah, N.* (2014), "Fabrication of a novel biomaterial with enhanced mechanical and conducting properties", Journal of Materials Chemistry (B) doi 10.1039/c4tb01029a

            2. Babu, A.R., Gundiah, N*, (2014) "Role of crosslinking and entanglements in the mechanics of silicone networks", Expt. Mech. doi 10.1007/s11340-014-9895-x.

            3. Kundanati, L. and Gundiah, N*, (2014) "Biomechanics of substrate boring by fig wasps", J. Exp. Biol. 17: 1946-1954.

            2013

            1. Gundiah, N*, Babu, A.R., Pruitt, L.A., (2013) "Effects of elastase and collagenase on the nonlinearity and anisotropy of porcine aorta", Physiol. Meas. 34 1657-73.

            2. Babu, A. R., Gundiah, N*, (2013) "Exploring the contributions of variable network structure on rubber elasticity using model silicone elastomers", Proc. of the 13th International Conference on Fracture .

            3. Byju, A. G., Kulkarni, A., Gundiah, N*, (2013) "Mechanics of gelatin and elastin based hydrogels and tissue engineered constructs", Proc. of the 13th International Conference on Fracture (2013).

            4. Agrawal, V., Kollimada, S.A., Byju, A.G., Gundiah, N*, (2013) "Regional variations in the nonlinearity and anisotropy of bovine aortic elastin." Biomech Model Mechanobiol doi 10.1007/s10237-013-0474-3.

            2007-2012

            1. (1: equal contribution) Chitsaz, S.1, Gundiah, N* 1, Blackshear, C., Tegegn, N., Yan, K.S., Azadani, A. N., Hope, M., Tseng, E. E., (2012) "Correlation of calcification on excised aortic valves by micro computed tomography with severity of aortic stenosis", J. Heart Valve Dis., 21(3): 320-7.

            2. Gundiah, N*, Narasimhan, A. and Dutta, P., (2011) "Invited review on ‘Macromolecular transport through porous arterial walls", J Indian Inst Sc., 91(3): 367-382.

            3. Gundiah, N*, Ratcliffe, M.B. and Pruitt, L., (2009)"The biomechanics of arterial elastin", J. Mech. Behav. Biomed. Matls., 2(3): 288-296,.

            4. Gundiah, N*, Matthews, P.B., Azadani, A., Guccione, J.M., Guy, S.T., Chuter, T.A., Saloner, D., Tseng, E.E., (2008) "Significant material property differences between the porcine ascending aorta and aortic sinuses", J. Heart Valve Dis., 17: 606-613, .

            5. Gundiah, N*, Kam, K., Matthews, PB, Guccione, J., Dwyer, H., Saloner, D., Chuter, T.A., Guy, S.T., Ratcliffe, M.B., Tseng, E.E., (2008) "Asymmetric mechanical properties of porcine aortic sinuses", Annals of Thoracic Surg., 85:1631-38.

            6. Gundiah, N**, Ratcliffe, MB and Pruitt, L, (2007) "Determination of strain energy function for arterial elastin: experiments using histology and mechanical tests", J. Biomech., 40 (3), 586-594,.

            Previous publications

            1. Tendulkar, A.P., Walker, J., Guccione, J.M., Gundiah, N*, Tseng, E.E., Ratcliffe, M.B., (2005) "Mechanical stresses in left ventricular apical infarct aneurysm", J. Am. Coll. Surg., 201 (3): S22-S22.

            2. Graham, J, Pruitt, L, Ries, M, Gundiah, N*, (2000) "Fracture and fatigue properties of acrylic bone cement - The effects of mixing method, sterilization treatment, and molecular weight", J. Arthroplasty, 15 (8): 1028-1035,.

            3. Jacob, KT, Gundiah, N*, Menon, AG, (1996) "A thermodynamic criterion for selection of gas compositions for diamond deposition", High Temp. Matls. Proc.,15 (4): 223-235,.

            4. Gundiah, N*, Jacob, KT, Menon, AG, (1996) "Revision of JANAF (1985) data for C2H2(g)", CALPHAD, 20 (2): 171-174,.

    Peer reviewed Conferences

    2014

    1. Babu, A. R. and Gundiah, N*, (July, 2014) "Failure mechanisms during dissection of human ascending aorta", World Congress on Biomechanics, Boston.

    2013

    1. Kollimada, S., Ravan, A., Gundiah, N*,(14-18 December, 2013) "The advancing edge: effects of geometry on cell migrations", American Society for Cell Biology, New Orleans,.

    2. Babu, A. R., Misra, T., Byju, A. G., Kumar, A. V., Chattuparambil, C. and Gundiah, N*,(25-28th August, 2013) “Biomechanics of ascending aortic dissections”, oral presentation at 19th Congress of European Society for Biomechanics, Patras, Greece,.

    3. Babu, A.R. and Gundiah, N*, (June 2013) “Exploring the contributions of variable network structure on rubber elasticity using model silicone elastomers”, oral presentation at the International conference on Fracture (ICF-WASI), Beijing.

    4. Kundanati L. and Gundiah, N*, (January 2013 Annual Meeting) “Biomechanics of substrate boring by fig wasps: role of zinc in insect cuticle”, oral presentation at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, San Francisco.

    2012

    1. Babu, A.R., Rathod, M.L., Basu, N., Visweswariah, S., Gundiah, N*, (1-3rd March, 2012) “Role of substrate stiffness and mechanical stimulus in endothelial phenotype”, International conference on angiogenesis: basics and applications”, Anna University-KBC Research Center, Chennai, India.

    2. Kollimada, S., Agrawal, V., Gundiah, N*, (1-3rd March, 2012) “Adhesion and migration response of breast cancer cells to varying substrate stiffness”, International conference on angiogenesis: basics and applications”, Anna University-KBC Research Center, Chennai, India.

    Previous publications

    1. Kundanati, L., Ghara, M., Borges, R.M., Sane, S.P., Gundiah, N*, (August 1-5,2010) “Micromechanics of insect boring during oviposition”, World Congress on Biomechanics, Singapore.

    2. Jhun, C.S., Gundiah, N*, Sun, K., Sabbah, H.N., Ratcliffe, M.B., Guccione, J.M., (May 30- June 2,2009) "Quantification of Wall Stress Reduction and the Starling Relationship on an Acorn CorCapTM Cardiac Support Device Treated Failing Heart: Finite Element Modeling Study: Part I", Heart Failure Congress, Nice, France.

    3. Jhun, C.S., Gundiah, N*, Sun, K., Sabbah, H.N., Ratcliffe, M.B., Guccione, J.M.,(May 30- June 2,2009) "Quantification of Wall Stress Reduction and the Starling Relationship on an Acorn CorCapTM Cardiac Support Device Treated Failing Heart: Finite Element Modeling Study: Part II", Heart Failure Congress, Nice, France.