High-throughput quantitative measurement of bulk mechanical properties of soft materials

A method for measuring a bulk mechanical property of one or more soft materials, the method comprising:

• preparing one or more soft material samples in one or more sample wells, the one or more soft material samples comprising one or more solid particles embedded in a soft material;
• mounting the one or more sample wells in a centrifuge in an inverted configuration;
• spinning the one or more sample wells in the centrifuge in a series of increasing centrifugal velocity increments;
• and
• monitoring the one or more soft material samples after each centrifugal velocity increment to determine whether the one or more solid particles have broken through the soft material in the one or more soft material samples.