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13 papers
On the interplay between activity, elasticity and liquid transport in self-contractile biopolymer gels
Anne Bernheim-Groswasser, Gefen Livne, Paola Nardinocchi +2
Active gels play an important role in biology and in inspiring biomimetic active materials, due to their ability to change shape, size and create their own morphology; the relevant…
Circumferential buckling of a hydrogel tube emptying upon dehydration
Michele Curatolo, Federico Lisi, Gaetano Napoli +1
A cylindrical hydrogel tube, completely submerged in water, hydrates by swelling and filling its internal cavity. When it comes back into contact with air, it dehydrates: the tube…
Non-affine fiber reorientation in finite inelasticity
Jacopo Ciambella, Paola Nardinocchi
This paper introduces a model for the mechanical response of anisotropic soft materials undergoing large inelastic deformations. The composite is constituted by a soft isotropic ma…
Dehydration induced mechanical instabilities in active elastic spherical shells
Michele Curatolo, Gaetano Napoli, Paola Nardinocchi +1
Active-elastic instabilities are common phenomena in the natural world which have the aspect of sudden mechanical morphings. Frequently, the driving force of the instability mechan…
Modeling liquid migration in active swollen gel spheres
Michele Curatolo, Paola Nardinocchi, Luciano Teresi
Liquid migration in active soft solids is a very common phenomenon in Nature at different scales: from cells to leaves. It can be caused by mechanical as well as chemical actions.…
Torque-induced reorientation in active fibre-reinforced materials
Jacopo Ciambella, Paola Nardinocchi
We introduce a continuum model for a fibre reinforced material in which the reference orientation of the fibre may evolve with time, under the influence of external stimuli. The mo…