Cellular Traction and Morphological Adaptation to Cell-Scale Stiffness Gradients on Length-Encoded Micropillar Arrays
Prabuddha De Saram, Nam‐Trung Nguyen, Sharda Yadav, Navid Kashaninejad
This paper develops a micropillar array platform to study how cancer cells respond to mechanical stiffness gradients at the cell scale, finding biphasic pillar displacement and increased traction forces with stiffness.
bioRxiv · Oct 23, 2026 · PreprintBioengineering