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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…