**Meet the editor**

Juan de Vicente received Ph.D. degrees in Physics from the University of Granada (Spain) and the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis (France) with European Mention and Extraordinary Doctorate Awards. He has carried out research stays at the LPMC - University of Nice, RRC - University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vakgroep Reologie - Universiteit Twente, under a FPU Predoc-

toral Fellowship. He has been Marie Curie Postdoc and Marie Curie ERG Fellow at Unilever Corporate Research and Imperial College London. He is recipient of the "Young Investigator Award" from the Social Council and the "Physics Research Award" from the Academy of Sciences. He is presently Associate Professor of Applied Physics at the University of Granada. His research interests include magnetorheology and soft-elasto-ferrohydrodynamic lubrication.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

**Section 1 Theory and Simulations 1** 

Chapter 3 **Microscopic Formulation of** 

Kejian Wang

**Section 2 Biological Materials 97** 

Naoki Sasaki

Chapter 6 **Viscoelasticity in Biological Systems:** 

Chapter 8 **Dynamic Mechanical Response of** 

Chapter 1 **Viscoelastic Natural Convection 3**  L. A. Dávalos-Orozco

Chapter 2 **Turbulent Flow of Viscoelastic Fluid** 

**Through Complicated Geometry 33**  Takahiro Tsukahara and Yasuo Kawaguchi

**Fractional Theory of Viscoelasticity 59**  B.N. Narahari Achar and John W. Hanneken

Chapter 5 **Viscoelastic Properties of Biological Materials 99** 

**A Special Focus on Microbes 123** 

Chapter 7 **Viscoelastic Properties of the Human Dermis** 

**Aging and Aging–Related Disease 157** 

**Epithelial Cells to Epidermal Growth Factor 171** 

Supriya Bhat, Dong Jun, Biplab C. Paul and Tanya E. S Dahms

**and Other Connective Tissues and Its Relevance to Tissue** 

Tetsuya Nemoto, Ryo Kubota, Yusuke Murasawa and Zenzo Isogai

Jun Xi, Lynn S. Penn, Ning Xi, Jennifer Y. Chen and Ruiguo Yang

Chapter 4 **Die Swell of Complex Polymeric Systems 77** 
