2 papers
cond-mat.soft2022
Hydroelastomers: soft, tough, highly swelling composites
Simon Moser, Yanxia Feng, Oncay Yasa +6
Inspired by the cellular design of plant tissue, we present a new approach to make versatile, tough, highly water-swelling composites. We embed highly swelling hydrogel particles i…
physics.flu-dyn2018
Thermocapillary-driven fluid flow within microchannels
Guillermo J Amador, Ahmet Fatih Tabak, Ziyu Ren +3
Surface tension gradients induce Marangoni flow, which may be exploited for fluid transport. At the micrometer scale, these surface-driven flows can be more significant than those…