Fig. 10

Illustration showing the micropillar array which are being utilized for studying mechanobiology. Cell attached over a micropillar surface (a); Pillars showing the deflection due to varied stiffness and the force exerted by the cells (b); the tunability of the micropillar deflection according to the need by changing the stiffness (c); False colored SEM image of attached cell over a gradient micropost array increasing in stiffness (d). Reproduced with kind permission from RSC publishing [194]