Mattia Bacca
Associate Professor
B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D. (University of Trento, Italy), Postdoctoral Fellowship (University of California, Santa Barbara).
| phone: | (604) 827-5076 |
| email: | mbacca@mech.ubc.ca |
| website: | micronano.mech.ubc.ca |
| office: | ICICS 165 |
Research Interests
- Micromechanics of Soft Solid Matter
Current Research Work
Mechanics of:
- Biomembranes and Enveloped Viruses
- Cells (Mechanobiology) and Soft Materials
- Puncture, Cutting, Fracture
- Adhesion
Selected Publications
- Ferraresso, M., Shojaeifard, M., Kong, A., & Bacca, M. (2023). A model for the contraction kinetics of cytoskeletal gel slabs. Journal of Applied Physics, 134 (24)
- Fregonese, S., Tong, Z., Wang, S., & Bacca, M. (2023). Theoretical Puncture Mechanics of Soft Compressible Solids. Journal of Applied Mechanics, 90(11), 111003.
- Ferraresso, M., Kong, A., Hasan, M., Agostinelli, D., Elfring, G. J., & Bacca, M. (2023). Energetics of cytoskeletal gel contraction. Soft Matter, 19(29), 5430-5442.
- Kong, A., Bacca, M. (2022). A self-adhesion criterion for slanted micropillars. Extreme Mechanics Letters, 52, 101663.
- Bacca, M. (2022). Mechanics of diffusion-mediated budding and implications for virus replication and infection. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 19, 20220525
- Fregonese, S., Bacca, M. (2022). How friction and adhesion affect the mechanics of deep penetration in soft solids. Soft Matter, 18 (36), 6882-6887
- Agostinelli, D., Elfring, GJ., Bacca, M. (2022). The morphological role of ligand inhibitors in blocking receptor-and clathrin-mediated endocytosis. Soft Matter, 18 (18), 3531-3545.
- Khungura, H., & Bacca, M. (2021). The role of interfacial curvature in controlling the detachment strength of bioinspired fibrillar adhesives. Mechanics of Materials, 160, 103914.
- Fregonese, S., & Bacca, M. (2021). Piercing soft solids: A mechanical theory for needle insertion. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 154, 104497.
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