Polymer gels belong to the realm of soft active materials as they are capable of responding to a non-mechanical stimulus – the permeation of a solvent – with a mechanical action – a volume change, thanks to the coupling between different physics. This mechanism of coupling can be exploited in a wide range of applications, including biomedical devices, making crucial the understanding of the dynamics of these systems. To this aim, we develop a nonlinear multiphysics theory and solve numerically the resulting model using the finite element method.
Multiphysics Modeling of Swelling Gels / Nardinocchi, Paola; Lucantonio, Alessandro; Teresi, L.. - STAMPA. - (2012). (Intervento presentato al convegno 2012 Comsol Conference tenutosi a Milan Italy nel October 2012).
Multiphysics Modeling of Swelling Gels
NARDINOCCHI, Paola;LUCANTONIO, ALESSANDRO;
2012
Abstract
Polymer gels belong to the realm of soft active materials as they are capable of responding to a non-mechanical stimulus – the permeation of a solvent – with a mechanical action – a volume change, thanks to the coupling between different physics. This mechanism of coupling can be exploited in a wide range of applications, including biomedical devices, making crucial the understanding of the dynamics of these systems. To this aim, we develop a nonlinear multiphysics theory and solve numerically the resulting model using the finite element method.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.