http://www.imechanica.org/node/2789 Comments for "Large deformation and instability in gels" en http://www.imechanica.org/node/2789 <p> I&#39;m attaching slides of&nbsp;a talk that I gave yesterday at the <a href="http://www.slb.com/content/about/research/sdr.asp">Schlumberger-Doll Research Center</a>.&nbsp; In preparing the talk, I made liberal use of slides prepared by <a href="http://imechanica.org/user/27">Wei Hong</a> for his own presentations.&nbsp;&nbsp;The talk is mainly based on the following papers: </p> <ul> <li>Wei Hong, Xuanhe Zhao, Jinxiong Zhou and Zhigang Suo, <a href="http://imechanica.org/node/1926">A theory of coupled diffusion and large deformation in polymeric gels</a>. Journal of Mechanics and Physics of Solids, <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2007.11.010">http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2007.11.010</a> </li> <li>Xuanhe Zhao, Wei Hong, and Zhigang Suo, <a href="http://www.seas.harvard.edu/suo/papers/203.pdf">Inhomogeneous and anisotropic equilibrium state of a swollen hydrogel containing a hard core</a>. Applied Physics Letters 92, 051904 (2008). </li> <li>Wei Hong, Xuanhe Zhao, Zhigang Suo, <a href="http://imechanica.org/node/2487">Drying-induced bifurcation in a hydrogel-actuated nanostructure</a>.</li> </ul> <p> I&#39;m grateful to <a href="http://imechanica.org/user/2922">Nathan Wicks</a> for the invitation to speak, and for pointing to the recent development of&nbsp;<a href="http://www.enventuregt.com/assets/base/pdfs/articles/jpt_sep05.pdf">swelling elastomers in the oil industry</a>.&nbsp; Many&nbsp;in the audience&nbsp;gave excellent feedback. </p> <p> Attached please find the slides in both&nbsp;pdf and ppt format.&nbsp;&nbsp;Please feel free to use them any way you&nbsp;like.&nbsp; </p> <br class="clear" /> http://www.imechanica.org/node/2789#comments industry elastomer gel hydrogel slides suo group research swelling Sat, 01 Mar 2008 09:56:17 -0500 Zhigang Suo 2789 at http://www.imechanica.org