The increase in the number of structural applications of composite materials, especially in
the aerospace and automotive industries, has led to a demand for robust models to simulate …

Evaporation, pervaporation, and forward osmosis are processes leading to a mass transfer
of solvent across an interface: gas/liquid for evaporation and solid/liquid (membrane) for …

Here we employ and adapt the image-to-image translation concept based on conditional
generative adversarial networks (cGAN) for learning a forward and an inverse solution …

Granular hydrogels have been increasingly exploited in biomedical applications, including
wound healing and cardiac repair. Despite their utility, design guidelines for engineering …

Swelling is a volumetric-growth process in which a porous material expands by
spontaneous imbibition of additional pore fluid. Swelling is distinct from other growth …

Ionic polymer metal composites (IPMCs) consist of an electroactive polymeric membrane
plated with metal electrodes. They hold promise as actuators and sensors for soft robotics …

The mechanical behavior of the lungs has long been associated with the structural
properties of alveoli in pulmonary medicine. However, this structure-function relationship …

We extend the classical Flory-Rehner theory for the expansion and compression of porous
materials such as cross-linked polymer networks and membranes. The theory includes …

Delivering therapeutic agents into the brain via convection-enhanced delivery (CED), a
mechanically controlled infusion method, provides an efficient approach to bypass the blood …

Subcutaneous injection of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) has recently attracted
unprecedented interests in the pharmaceutical industry. The drug transport in the tissue and …