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Obstructed swelling and fracture of hydrogels
Abigail Plummer, Caroline Adkins, Jean-François Louf +2
Obstructions influence the growth and expansion of bodies in a wide range of settings -- but isolating and understanding their impact can be difficult in complex environments. Here…
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Effect of confinement on the mechanics of a swelling hydrogel bead
Chaitanya Joshi, Mathew Q. Giso, Jean-François Louf +2
We recast the problem of hydrogel swelling under physical constraints as an energy optimization problem. We apply this approach to compute equilibrium shapes of hydrogel spheres co…