2 papers
cond-mat.soft2019
Shearing-induced contact pattern formation in hydrogels sliding in polymer solution
Shintaro Yashima, Satoshi Hirayama, Takayuki Kurokawa +4
The contact of a hydrogel during the rotational shearing on glass surface in concentrated polymer solution was observed in situ. Dynamic contact patterns that rotate in-phase with…
cond-mat.soft2018
How super-tough gels break
Itamar Kolvin, John M. Kolinski, Jian Ping Gong +1
Fracture of highly stretched materials challenges our view of how things break. We directly visualize rupture of tough double-network (DN) gels at >50\% strain. During fracture, cr…