Abstract
This paper is a study on the measurement of mechanical properties of a living cardiac myocyte. We propose micro mechanical sensors made of PDMS using soft lithography technique. The device consists of micro columns arrays and work as vertical cantilevers measuring local forces of a myocyte. The generated force derives from the displacement of the top of column. This approach has the potential to measure 2-dimensional mechanical properties of a single myocyte to develop a viscoelastic constitutive equation for a bio-simulator model.
