Supporting Information
Soft-Mechanochemistry: Mechanochemistry Inspired by Nature Philippe Lavalle(1,2), Fouzia Boulmedais(3), Pierre Schaaf(1,2,3,4)* , Loïc Jierry(3) (1) Unité INSERM U1121, Biomaterials and Bioengineering, 11, rue Humann, 67085 Strasbourg Cedex, France. (2) Université de Strasbourg, Faculté de Chirurgie Dentaire, 8 rue Saint Elisabeth, 67000 Strasbourg, France; Fédération de Médecine Translationnelle de Strasbourg (FMTS), Fédération des Matériaux et Nanoscience d'Alsace (FMNA) (3) Institut Charles Sadron, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de Strasbourg, 23 rue du Loess, 67034 Strasbourg Cedex 2, France. (4) University of Strasbourg Institute of Advanced Study, 5 allée du Général Rouvillois, 67083 Strasbourg, France.
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In order to get a better idea on how mechanical stress is applied on the silicone sheets we present, here below, images of several stretching devices used to perform the reported results. All the devices were designed and manufactured by J. Hemmerlé and K. Benmlih.
Figure S1 : Stretching devices used for silicone functionalization
Figure S2 : This stretching device was used for the protein/surface interactions such as streptavidin with biotin. The proteins were fluorescently labelled. This device was inserted under a fluorescence microscope.
Figure S3 : Stretching device that was used in an environmental scanning electron microscope.
Figure S4 : Stretching devices used to investigate cell adhesion. The device presented on the right was inserted in a stretching device (left). After stretching the silicone sheet was clamped and deposited in a cell-culture flask.
