Hydrogels are materials widely used in countless applications, particularly in the biomedical,
pharmaceutical, and nutraceutical fields, because of their biocompatibility and their …

Snap-through buckling is commonly used in nature for power-amplified movements. While
natural examples such as Utricularia and Dionaea muscipula can autonomously reset their …

Morphing structures are often engineered with stresses introduced into a flat sheet by
leveraging structural anisotropy or compositional heterogeneity. Here, we identify a simple …

The geometric reconfigurations in three-dimensional morphable structures have a wide
range of applications in flexible electronic devices and smart systems with unusual …

The swelling of a polymer gel is a kinetic process coupling mass transport and mechanical
deformation. Both linear and nonlinear theories have been used to describe the swelling …

Silicone is frequently used as a model system to investigate and tune wetting on soft
materials. Silicone is biocompatible and shows excellent thermal, chemical, and UV stability …

Recent advances in contact mechanics have formalized approaches to distinguish between
poroelastic and viscoelastic deformation regimes via load relaxation experiments, and to …

An elastomeric gel is a mixture of a polymer network and a solvent. In response to changes
in mechanical forces and in the chemical potential of the solvent in the environment, the gel …

Polymer gels are remarkable materials with physical structures that can adapt significantly
and quite rapidly with changes in the local environment, such as temperature, light intensity …

Brain tissue is considered to be biphasic, with approximately 80% liquid and 20% solid
matrix, thus exhibiting viscoelasticity due to rearrangement of the solid matrix and …