Publication Date:
2018-08-02
Description:
Author(s): Ya-Wen Chang, Michael S. Dimitriyev, Anton Souslov, Svetoslav V. Nikolov, Samantha M. Marquez, Alexander Alexeev, Paul M. Goldbart, and Alberto Fernández-Nieves When a swollen, thermoresponsive polymer gel is heated in a solvent bath, it expels solvent and deswells. When this heating is slow, deswelling proceeds homogeneously, as observed in a toroid-shaped gel that changes volume while maintaining its toroidal shape. By contrast, if the gel is heated quick... [Phys. Rev. E 98, 020501(R)] Published Wed Aug 01, 2018
Keywords:
Polymers
Print ISSN:
1539-3755
Electronic ISSN:
1550-2376
Topics:
Physics
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