Self-healing injectable hydrogels for tissue regeneration

P Bertsch, M Diba, DJ Mooney… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Biomaterials with the ability to self-heal and recover their structural integrity offer many
advantages for applications in biomedicine. The past decade has witnessed the rapid …

Accelerating cellulose nanocrystal assembly into chiral nanostructures

Q Wang, W Niu, S Feng, J Liu, H Liu, Q Zhu - ACS nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
Cellulose nanocrystal (CNC) suspensions self-assembled into chiral nematic liquid crystals.
This property has enabled the development of versatile optical materials with fascinating …

Flow and assembly of cellulose nanocrystals (CNC): A bottom-up perspective-A review

AA Moud, AA Moud - International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 2023 - Elsevier
Cellulosic sources, such as lignocellulose-rich biomass, can be mechanically or acid
degraded to produce inclusions called cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs). They have several …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Birefringent properties of aqueous cellulose nanocrystal suspensions

C Lane, D Rode, T Rösgen - Cellulose, 2022 - Springer
Birefringence measurements of aqueous cellulose nanocrystal (CNC) suspensions are
reported. Seven suspensions with concentrations between 0.7 and 1.3% per weight are …

Estimation of transverse thermoelastic properties of polyimide fibers based on micromechanical models

C Lu, H Shao, S Bi, N Chen, G Shao, J Jiang - Composites Science and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The determination of the thermoelastic properties of polyimide (PI) fibers is important for their
applications, however, these properties are difficult to measure directly, especially the …

Computational approach for structure generation of anisotropic particles (casgap) with targeted distributions of particle design and orientational order

N Gupta, A Jayaraman - Nanoscale, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The macroscopic properties of materials are governed by their microscopic structure which
depends on the materials' composition (ie, building blocks) and processing conditions. In …

[HTML][HTML] Naturally derived colloidal rods in microfluidic flows

V Calabrese, AQ Shen, SJ Haward - Biomicrofluidics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Naturally derived colloidal rods (CR) are promising building blocks for developing
sustainable soft materials. Engineering new materials based on naturally derived CR …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of constitutive models for shear-banding wormlike micellar solutions in simple and complex flows

S Varchanis, SJ Haward, CC Hopkins… - Journal of Non …, 2022 - Elsevier
Wormlike micellar solutions possess complex rheology: when exposed to a flow field, the
wormlike micelles may orientate, stretch, and break into smaller micelles. Entangled …

[HTML][HTML] Promising aqueous dispersions of carbon black for semisolid flow battery application

M Meslam, AA Elzatahry, M Youssry - Colloids and Surfaces A …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this systematic study, we attempt to thoroughly understand the aggregation mechanism of
conductive carbon black in aqueous dispersing medium and optimize the formulation of …