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20132022
most citedA soft robotic tongue to develop solutions to manage swallowing disorders

7 citations · 9 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

Effect of Macroscopic Surface Heterogeneities on an Advancing Contact Line

Solomon S. Melides, Dominic Vella, Marco Ramaioli

The shape of a liquid-air interface advancing on a heterogeneous surface was studied experimentally, together with the force induced by the pinning of the contact line to surface d…

physics.med-ph20207 cited

A soft robotic tongue to develop solutions to manage swallowing disorders

Marco Marconati, Silvia Pani, Jan Engmann +2

The development of novel texture adaptations for the management of swallowing disorders could be accelerated if reliable in vitro tests were made available. This study addresses so…

q-bio.TO20202 cited

The role of extensional rheology in the oral phase of swallowing: an in vitro study

Marco Marconati, Marco Ramaioli

Swallowing disorders deteriorate significantly the quality of life and can be lifethreatening. Texture modification using shear thinning food thickeners have proven effective in th…

cond-mat.soft2018

Mixing Grains with Different Elongation in a Rotating Drums

Claudia Piacenza, Marco Marconati, Colin Hare +2

Mixing grains with different properties is a remarkably challenging process, relevant to many industrial applications. Rotating drums have been used extensively as model systems to…

q-bio.TO2018

In vitro and sensory tests to design easy-to-swallow multi-particulate formulations

Marco Marconati, Felipe Lopez, Catherine Tuleu +2

Flexible dosing and ease of swallowing are key factors when designing oral drug delivery systems for paediatric and geriatric populations. Multi-particulate oral dosage forms can o…

q-bio.TO2018

New trends in mechanistic transdermal drug delivery modelling: Towards an accurate description of skin microstructure

Daniel Sebastia-Saez, Adam Burbidge, Jan Engmann +1

Interest for in silico modelling of the absorption of xenobiotics into the skin has been growing in the last years, owing to their lower cost compared to experimental alternatives,…