3 papers
cond-mat.soft2025
Evolving transport properties of dynamic hydrogels enable self-tuning of short- and long-term cargo delivery
Samya Sen, Changxin Dong, Carolyn K. Jons +6
Hydrogels are crosslinked polymer networks with high water content, widely employed in biomedical applications such as drug delivery, tissue engineering, and regenerative medicine.…
cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025
Hydrogel-to-Aerogel Transitions in Polymer-Particle Hydrogels Expand the Wildfire Defense Window
Changxin Dong, Samya Sen, Zhennan Ru +4
The 2025 Los Angeles wildfires caused widespread urban destruction and displacement, and severe economic losses, highlighting the urgent need for better fire retardants. Current fi…
cond-mat.soft2025
Stretching the Printability Metric in Direct-ink Writing with Highly Extensible Yield-Stress Fluids
Chaimongkol Saengow, Samya Sen, Joaquin Yus +7
Direct-ink writing leverages the rheological complexity of yield-stress fluids to construct complex geometries, particularly those with large gaps across internal structures. Howev…