Self‐Growing Hydrogel Bioadhesives for Chronic Wound Management

Z Zheng, X Chen, Y Wang, P Wen, Q Duan… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogel bioadhesives have emerged as a promising alternative to wound dressings for
chronic wound management. However, many existing bioadhesives do not meet the …

Harnessing Gravity‐Induced Instability of Soft Materials: Mechanics and Application

C Lü, K Li, Y Du, H Zhang, C Liu… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This work offers a comprehensive overview of how gravity affects soft materials, with a
particular emphasis on gravity‐induced instability. Soft materials, including biological …

Strain stiffening retards growth instability in residually stressed biological tissues

Y Wang, Y Du, F Xu - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2023 - Elsevier
Soft biological tissues often exhibit notable strain stiffening under increasing stretch, and this
can have significant effects on tissue growth and morphological development, such as …

Negative Gaussian curvature regulated pattern evolution on curved bilayer system

Y Zhao, Z Jie, Y Zhang, C Jiang, Y Cao - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Diverse wrinkling patterns may occur on curved bilayer system under equi-biaxial
compression. Here we study the wrinkling pattern evolution on curved bilayer system with …

Blood pressure-driven rupture of blood vessels

WK Sun, BB Yin, LW Zhang, KM Liew - … of the Mechanics and Physics of …, 2023 - Elsevier
To develop better diagnosis and treatment techniques of cardiovascular disease such as
aneurysm, further understandings of the biomechanical mechanisms and failure behaviors …

[HTML][HTML] Electroactive differential growth and delayed instability in accelerated healing tissues

Y Wang, Z Li, X Chen, Y Tan, F Wang, Y Du… - Journal of the …, 2024 - Elsevier
Guided by experiments contrasting electrically accelerated recovery with natural healing,
this study formulates a model to investigate the importance of electroactive differential …

Snap-through instability in rotating dielectric elastomer tubes

K Li, Y Du, Y Zhang, Y Zhang, C Lü - International Journal of Mechanical …, 2024 - Elsevier
Dielectric elastomers (DEs) have been widely used in soft robotics, high-performance
actuators, and bioengineering. However, they may suffer from more failure modes than pure …

Morphological instability of geometrically incompatible bilayer tubes

C Liu, Y Du, K Li, C Lü - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2024 - Elsevier
Surface morphological instability, induced by geometric incompatibility, is ubiquitous in
nature and plays a pivotal role in maintaining specific biological functions in organs. In this …

Chemomechanics Underpinning the Growth and Strengthening Behaviors of Mechanoresponsive Self-Growing Hydrogels

Z Sheng, J Ma, Z Shen, S Qu, Z Jia - Macromolecules, 2023 - ACS Publications
Living tissues, such as skeletal muscles, are capable of remodeling and self-growth in
response to their mechanical environment. In contrast, synthetic materials, once formed …

Growth and morphogenesis of an everted tubular biological tissue

C Liu, Y Du, K Li, Z Han, C Lü - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Eversion, a ubiquitous phenomenon in living organisms, significantly contributes to the
growth and morphogenesis of soft biological tissues and organs. In this study, we examine …