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Showing 1 to 20 of 144 for “"soft materials"”.
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Interactions and Dynamics of Soft Materials
Another large part of my dissertation is related with polymer interfacial dynamics. As one of the center topics of polymer physics, many models have been generated to understand polymer dynamics in bulk solutions and in melt. However, to study the dynamics of polymer at the interfaces is more …
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The yielding transition in soft materials
Many materials exist which span the behavioral gap between solids and liquids. Such materials are commonly referred to as either complex fluids or soft materials, and exhibit varying extents of solid-like deformation or fluid-like flow, depending on the specific microstructure of the material. A …
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Enhancing Music Interfaces with Soft Materials
… thesis examines the benefits of incorporating soft materials into musical interfaces and why DMIs should be designed with musician-instrument relationships as a priority in order to enhance intuitiveness and expressiveness. This work culminates with design and analysis of a prototype that …
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Transport of soft materials in crowded environment
… microscopy was used to study the transport of soft material objects in crowded environment. Delaunay triangulation and wavelet transform were adapted to extract more information from images of macromolecules with irregular shapes and heterogeneous transportation dynamics. Systems studied are …
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Understanding the yielding transition in soft materials
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-02-04 without embargo terms
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Dynamics characterization for designing functional soft materials
In solutions, the dynamic behavior of soft materials is often critical to their function. In biological materials such as proteins and peptides, the edict that 'structure dictates function' has been supplanted in recent decades by recognition that features like intrinsic disorder, conformational …
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Sensor-Enabled Accelerated Engineering of Soft Materials
… challenges are rooted in the need for new materials, such as those related to energy, health, and the environment. However, the traditional way of discovering new materials is basically trial and error. This time-consuming and expensive method can't meet the quickly growing requirements for …
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SELF-ASSEMBLY, DEFORMATION, AND DISASSEMBLY OF SOFT MATERIALS
Soft matter underlies many facets of modern life, including nanotechnology, biological life itself, and the repurposing of biomimetic entities for these nanotechnologies. Soft matter-based bulk materials used in everyday life include cosmetics (creams, powders, gels, foams), adhesives, the soft …
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Tuning The Properties Of Soft Materials Through Extreme Nanoconfinement
… model system to study the glass transition of soft materials under extreme nanoconfinement. In-situ spectroscopic ellipsometry with a temperature-control stage is used to monitor the glass transition process. We show that in CaRI films the Tg of confined polystyrene (PS), which interacts weakly …
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Manipulating soft materials to direct cell growth in multiple dimensions
… years. Microfabrication techniques involving soft lithography, microfluidic devices and direct-write assembly can be used to create such microenvironments. Soft lithography techniques, which typically include microcontact printing and decal transfer, rely on elastomeric molds, stamps or …
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Imaging the dynamics of soft materials at microscale and nanoscale
Soft materials are materials that are soft. They can usually be deformed easily by thermal stresses or thermal fluctuations at about room temperature, which makes their dynamic behaviors of great interest and importance. In this thesis, imaging tools such as bright-field and dark-field optical …
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Multivalent Programmable Interactions Between Lipid Vesicles: Towards Responsive Soft Materials
… degrees of freedom to develop novel lipid-based soft responsive materials with potential ’real-world’ applications, such as in molecular sensing. In Chapter 1, the motivations for this work are introduced, before introducing the requisite background literature and general experimental techniques …
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Deformation and fracture of soft materials for cartilage tissue engineering
… mechanical properties. The fracture mechanics of soft materials are complex, and are generally overlooked when designing tissue engineering scaffolds. The complexities have led to a lack of standardised testing, making comparisons between studies impractical. In this work, fracture testing methods …
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Dynamic wetting of soft materials and applications of dynamic tensiometry
Surfaces and interfaces pervade our world and understanding the phenomena that occur at them is imperative for a wide range of commercial and industrial applications. This thesis focuses on investigating the influence of physical and chemical parameters on surface wettability and characterizing …
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Printing ferromagnetic domains in soft materials : mechanism, modeling, and applications
Soft materials capable of transforming between three-dimensional (3D) shapes have applications in areas as diverse as flexible electronics, soft robotics, and biomedicine. This thesis introduces a method of printing ferromagnetic domains in soft materials that yield fast transformation between …
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Novel understandings of yielding in soft materials through recovery rheology techniques
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-20 without embargo terms
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Towards reversible mechanochemically triggered strengthening, toughening and assembly of soft materials
The field of mechanochemistry is on many levels inspired by biology, where mechanical force regulates the flux of ions through channels, triggers electrochemical impulses, and activates the rearrangement of protein complexes. A key attribute of many biochemical reactions is reversibility, as this …
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NMR Applications in Soft Materials Science: Correlation of Structure, Dynamics, and Transport
… and transport properties of several novel soft materials systems using multiple Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) methodologies, including solid-state NMR (SSNMR), diffusometry, and imaging, and with the help of X-ray scattering. First, we report the investigation of structure and dynamics …
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Methods to improve indentation results on soft materials and anisotropic biological tissues
Mechanical properties of soft biological tissues are key to the functionality of such tissues. Indentation has become a leading technique for characterizing the localized mechanical properties of materials, and it is an increasingly popular technique for studying biological materials. This thesis …
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The Synthesis and Study of Novel Squaramide Scaffolds: From Sensors to Soft Materials
… of Novel Squaramide Scaffolds: From Sensors to Soft Materials’ is divided in 6 Chapters. Chapter 1, squaramide based receptors as potential anion sensors, gives a brief introduction into the history of anion recognition and the significant role anions play in biology and in the environment. A …
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