Obstructed swelling and fracture of hydrogels
When swelling hydrogels encounter obstacles, they either expand around the obstacles or fracture, depending on obstacle geometry.
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Louf, Jean-François
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An energy-optimization method to study gel-swelling in confinement
Using our open-source programming environment Morpho, an energy-optimization method is developed to compute equilibrium shapes of an arbitrarily confined swollen hydrogel. The internal strains and contact forces are measured, probing its mechanics.
Joshi, Chaitanya↗