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Geometry and Mechanics of Thin Growing Bilayers
Matteo Pezzulla, Gabriel P. Smith, Paola Nardinocchi +1
We investigate how thin sheets of arbitrary shapes morph under the isotropic in-plane expansion of their top surface, which may represent several stimuli such as nonuniform heating…
Morphing of Geometric Composites via Residual Swelling
Matteo Pezzulla, Steven A. Shillig, Paola Nardinocchi +1
Understanding and controlling the shape of thin, soft objects has been the focus of significant research efforts among physicists, biologists, and engineers in the last decade. The…
Temperature-driven volume transition in hydrogels: phase--coexistence and interface localization
Emilio N. M. Cirillo, Paola Nardinocchi, Giulio Sciarra
We study volume transition phenomenon in hydrogels within the framework of Flory-Rehner thermodynamic modelling; we show that starting from different models for the Flory parameter…