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On the interplay between activity, elasticity and liquid transport in self-contractile biopolymer gels
Anne Bernheim-Groswasser, Gefen Livne, Paola Nardinocchi +2
Active gels play an important role in biology and in inspiring biomimetic active materials, due to their ability to change shape, size and create their own morphology; the relevant…
Modeling liquid migration in active swollen gel spheres
Michele Curatolo, Paola Nardinocchi, Luciano Teresi
Liquid migration in active soft solids is a very common phenomenon in Nature at different scales: from cells to leaves. It can be caused by mechanical as well as chemical actions.…
Transient instabilities in swelling dynamics
Michele Curatolo, Paola Nardinocchi, Eric Puntel +1
We investigate the swelling dynamics driven by solvent absorption in a hydrogel sphere immersed in a solvent bath, through an accurate computational model and numerical study. We e…
Actuation performances of anisotropic gels
Paola Nardinocchi, Luciano Teresi
We investigated the actuation performances of anisotropic gels driven by mechanical and chemical stimuli, in terms of both deformation processes and stroke--curves, and distinguish…
Continuum theory of swelling material surfaces with applications to thermo-responsive gel membranes and surface mass transport
Alessandro Lucantonio, Luciano Teresi, Antonio DeSimone
Soft membranes are commonly employed in shape-morphing applications, where the material is programmed to achieve a target shape upon activation by an external trigger, and as coati…
Comparing Trajectories on the Size and Shape Space
Valerio Varano, Stefano Gabriele, Luciano Teresi +4
In this paper we show that trajectory shape analysis should be performed only after obtaining a proper representation before applying ordination methods. In fact, studying the shap…
Myocardial Contractions and the Ventricular Pressure--Volume Relationship
Paola Nardinocchi, Luciano Teresi, Valerio Varano
We present a reduced-order heart model with the aim of introducing a novel point of view in the interpretation of the pressure-volume loops. The novelty of the approach is based on…