Shining light on porous liquids: from fundamentals to syntheses, applications and future challenges

D Wang, Y Xin, D Yao, X Li, H Ning… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Porous liquids (PLs), an emerging type of flowing liquid materials that combine the merits of
porous solids and flowing liquids, have garnered immense attention since the concept of …

Carbomer microgels as model yield-stress fluids

Z Jaworski, T Spychaj, A Story, G Story - Reviews in Chemical …, 2022 - degruyter.com
The review presents current research results for Carbopol-based microgels as yield-stress
materials, covering three aspects: chemical, physical and rheological. Such a joint three …

Flexibility, extensibility, and ratio of Kuhn length to packing length govern the pinching dynamics, coil-stretch transition, and rheology of polymer solutions

J Dinic, V Sharma - Macromolecules, 2020 - ACS Publications
We elucidate the influence of chemical structure on macromolecular hydrodynamics,
rheological response, and pinching dynamics underlying drop formation/liquid transfer using …

Dynamic mechanics‐modulated hydrogels to regulate the differentiation of stem‐cell spheroids in soft microniches and modeling of the nonlinear behavior

J Zhang, H Yang, BE Abali, M Li, Y Xia, R Haag - Small, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Although mechanisms of how physical forces convert into biochemical signals are
increasingly understood, it is still unknown how soft cues guide cell behavior. Herein, it is …

Power laws dominate shear and extensional rheology response and capillarity-driven pinching dynamics of entangled hydroxyethyl cellulose (HEC) solutions

J Dinic, V Sharma - Macromolecules, 2020 - ACS Publications
Quantitative studies of capillarity-driven pinching and extensional rheology of aqueous
solutions of polysaccharides like hydroxyethyl cellulose (HEC) are beyond the measurable …

A review of microfluidic devices for rheological characterisation

F Del Giudice - Micromachines, 2022 - mdpi.com
The rheological characterisation of liquids finds application in several fields ranging from
industrial production to the medical practice. Conventional rheometers are the gold standard …

Rheology and pinching dynamics of associative polysaccharide solutions

CDV Martínez Narváez, J Dinic, X Lu, C Wang… - …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Associative polysaccharides, decorated by multiple but short, side-chain hydrophobic
stickers (typically 6–20 carbon long) that associate in solution, are used as thickeners for an …

[HTML][HTML] Peptide gels of fully-defined composition and mechanics for probing cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions in vitro

JC Ashworth, JL Thompson, JR James, CE Slater… - Matrix Biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Current materials used for in vitro 3D cell culture are often limited by their poor similarity to
human tissue, batch-to-batch variability and complexity of composition and manufacture …

Microstructural dynamics and rheology of worm-like diblock copolymer nanoparticle dispersions under a simple shear and a planar extensional flow

V Calabrese, C Gyorgy, SJ Haward, TJ Neal… - …, 2022 - ACS Publications
We investigate the shear and extensional flow behavior of dispersions composed of two
types of worm-like nanoparticles (WLNPs) with comparable cross-sectional diameters …

Microrheological properties and local structure of ι-carrageenan gels probed by using optical tweezers

LC Geonzon, M Kobayashi, M Tassieri, RG Bacabac… - Food …, 2023 - Elsevier
Iota carrageenan (IC) is one of the most important gelling carrageenans in food and
biotechnological applications; however, some of its potential applications have been …