2 papers
cond-mat.soft2025
Elastocapillary adhesion of soft gel microspheres
Joseph N. Headley, Edgar W. Lyons, Mathew Q. Giso +6
Softer means stickier for solid adhesives, because material compliance facilitates close contact between non-conformal surfaces. Recent discoveries have revealed that soft material…
cond-mat.soft2023
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…