‘Receptor clustering control and associated force sensing by surface patterning: when force matters’

This Editorial article is featured in the new Special Focus Issue 'Engineering the nanoenvironment for regenerative medicine' published by Nanomedicine (IF: 5.824) “Nanostructured materials are ideally suited to study the impact that spatial properties at the single molecule level have on cell adhesion.” Dr Elisabetta Ada Cavalcanti-Adam & Professor Joachim Spatz (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems & University of Heidelberg, Germany). Nanostructured and chemically functionalized materials which mimic architectural and mechanical features of natural cell microenvironments hold promise for a better understanding and control of cell physiological processes through molecular and nanoscale interactions. Ultimately, the design of defined scaffolds...