A photoelastic material will reveal its internal stresses when observed through polarizing filters. This eye-catching property has enlightened our understanding of granular materials …
Dietary lipids and digestion products are strong inducers of satiety signals in the distal small intestine. To protect lipids against proximal absorption we encapsulate them in hydrogel …
H Carrêlo, MT Cidade, JP Borges, P Soares - Pharmaceuticals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Gellan gum is a biocompatible and easily accessible polysaccharide with excellent properties to produce microparticles as drug delivery systems. However, the production …
The Leidenfrost effect occurs when an object near a hot surface vaporizes rapidly enough to lift itself up and hover,. Although well understood for liquids,,,,,,,,,,,,, and stiff sublimable …
We describe here how to apply the three-dimensional imaging technique of refractive index matched scanning to hydrogel spheres. Hydrogels are water based materials with a low …
B Ye, H Xu, B Bao, J Xuan, L Zhang - RSC advances, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Microfluidic technologies have emerged as a promising route for precision fabrication of uniform particles. Equipment required for a traditional microfluidic device manufacturing …
Effective stress governs the mechanical behavior of porous media. In this study, we use photoelasticimetry to visualize the evolving effective stress field in fluid-filled granular media …
Recent work on suspension flows has shown that contact mechanics plays a role in suspension flow dynamics. The contact mechanics between particulate matter in dispersions …