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Angela Pitenis

Angela Pitenis

Assistant Professor
Materials
UC Santa Barbara
Phone:
805-893-5971
Email:
apitenis@ucsb.edu
Website:
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Research Focus Areas

Research Interests

The intersection of materials science, physics, chemistry, and biology. With an aim to understand interfacial phenomena and energy-dissipation at the interfaces of soft materials. With a focus on friction, adhesion, wear, and deformation of complex surfaces—from living cells to polymer nanocomposites. These interfacial interactions transpire over multiple length and time scales, often in extreme environments and within buried interfaces. 

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ICB Supported Publications

Multiscale Mechanics of Granular Biofilms

Lisa K. Månsson, Anna E. Warsaw, Elizabeth G. Wilbanks and Angela A. Pitenis
Tribology Letters ,
10.1007/s11249-025-02101-0

Radical-Free Digital Light Processing 3D Printing of Hydrogels Using a Photo-Caged Cyclopentadiene Diels–Alder Strategy

Takashi Kaneko, Ronnie V. Garcia, Allison L. Chau, Angela A. Pitenis, Sijia Huang, Bryan D. Moran, Sophia J. Bailey, Craig J. Hawker and Javier Read de Alaniz
Advanced Functional Materials,
10.1002/adfm.202514415

Stress relaxation rates of myocardium from failing and non-failing hearts

Marissa Gionet-Gonzales, Gianna Gathman, Jonah Rosas, Kyle Y. Kunisaki, Dominique Gabriele P. Inocencio, Niki Hakami, Gregory N. Milburn, Angela A. Pitenis, Kenneth S. Campbell, Beth L. Pruitt and Ryan S. Stowers
Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology ,
10.1007/s10237-024-01909-4

Superlubricity of pH-responsive hydrogels in extreme environments

Allison L. Chau, Patrick T. Getty, Andrew R. Rhode, Christopher M. Bates, Craig J. Hawker and Angela A. Pitenis
Frontiers in Chemistry,
10.3389/fchem.2022.891519

Extracellular Optogenetics at the Interface of Synthetic Biology & Materials Science

Lisa K. Mansson, Angela A. Pitenis, and Maxwell Z. Wilson
Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology,
10.3389/fbioe.2022.903982
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