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IceCAPA: patterning particles and microorganisms at a freezing front
Isabelle M. Feller, Jakob Paulsen, Muriel Scherer +2
The paper introduces IceCAPA, a technique that uses directional freezing to push particles or bacteria into patterned traps on a substrate, creating high‑fidelity micro‑ and nano‑s…
Hydrogel mechanics below swelling equilibrium
A. Chao Correas, Y. Feng, R. W. Style +1
Hydrogels are versatile materials due to their softness and ability to undergo large changes in water content. Their mechanics, however, are complex, being a tight coupling between…
Unravelling the multiscale surface mechanics of soft solids
Nicolas Bain, Lawrence A. Wilen, Dominic Gerber +7
Soft solids and their surface deformations control the response of many natural and artificial systems. Yet, their underlying properties are vigorously debated, particularly for po…
Label-free quantitative imaging of two-dimensional concentration gradients using Fabry-Pérot interferometry
Taieesa Peshkovsky, Stefan Andreas Schmid, David Taylor +3
Concentration gradients at the microscale play a central role in many physical, chemical, and biological systems, yet their quantitative visualization remains challenging due to th…
Controlling polymerization-induced phase separation in the synthesis of porous gels
Yanxia Feng, Noel Ringeisen, Eric R. Dufresne +2
Porous gels -- gels with solvent-filled pores that are much larger than their mesh size -- are widely used in engineering and biomedical applications due to their tunable mechanics…
Thermodynamics of microphase separation in a swollen, strain-stiffening polymer network
Carla Fernández-Rico, Robert W. Style, Stefanie Heyden +3
Elastic MicroPhase Separation (EMPS) provides a simple route to create soft materials with homogeneous microstructures by leveraging the supersaturation of crosslinked polymer netw…