Interest in hydrogel materials is growing rapidly, due to the potential for hydrogel use in
tissue engineering and drug delivery applications, and as coatings on medical devices …

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

Fundamental understanding of membrane fouling in osmosis-driven membrane processes
is important for further deployment of this emerging technology in desalination and …

When an indenter is pressed into a gel to a fixed depth, the solvent in the gel migrates, and
the force on the indenter relaxes. Within the theory of poroelasticity, the force relaxation …

Viscoelasticity of living tissues plays a critical role in tissue homeostasis and regeneration,
and its implication in disease development and progression is being recognized recently. In …

The theory of Chester and Anand (2011) for fluid diffusion and large deformations of
elastomeric gels is implemented as a user-defined element (UEL) subroutine in the …

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 …

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 …

In the classic theory of solid adhesion, surface energy drives deformation to increase contact
area whereas bulk elasticity opposes it. Recently, solid surface stress has been shown also …

In the field of tissue engineering, in order to restore tissue functionality hydrogels that closely
mimic biological and mechanical properties of the extracellular matrix are intensely …