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Bilayered polyurethane/dipole-dipole and H-bonding interaction reinforced hydrogels as thermo-responsive soft manipulators

Paul Joseph Dyson, Zhaofu Fei, Xunhui Wang, Zhangjun Huang, Haiyan Jia

Dipole-dipole and hydrogen-bonding interaction reinforced (DHIR) hydrogels that demonstrate both excellent thermo-responsive volume change and high mechanical strength have been developed. Their thermo-responsive volume change originates from the balance b ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2017

Study of Microfluidic Mixing and Droplet Generation for 3D Printing of Nuclear Fuels

Internal gelation and 3D printing processes were proposed to combine in a process that is promising to produce nuclear fuels with simplified production route and enhanced in-core performance [1]. The process relies on in-situ mixing of feed solutions that ...

EPFL2017

Soft Pneumatic Gelatin Actuator for Edible Robotics

Dario Floreano, Jamie Paik, Yegor Piskarev, Jun Shintake, Harshal Arun Sonar

We present a fully edible pneumatic actuator based on gelatin-glycerol material. The actuator is monolithic, fabricated via a molding process, and measures 90 mm in length, 20 mm in width, and 17 mm in thickness. Thanks to the material mechanical character ...

2017

Three dimensional hydrogels for culturing organoids

Matthias Lütolf, Nikolche Gjorevski

The invention provides hydrogels and methods for three-dimensional (3D) culture of adult epithelial stem cells and uses thereof. ...

2017

Lipid Internal Dynamics Probed in Nanodiscs

Henning Paul-Julius Stahlberg

Nanodiscs offer a very promising tool to incorporate membrane proteins into native-like lipid bilayers and an alternative to liposomes to maintain protein functions and protein-lipid interactions in a soluble nanoscale object. The activity of the incorpora ...

Wiley2017

A reassessment of mercury intrusion porosimetry by comparison with H-1 NMR relaxometry

Karen Scrivener, Arnaud Charles Albert Muller

This paper shows how MIP measurements can give an accurate picture of the capillary porosity of cement pastes. Regions of the intrusion curves can be identified corresponding to capillary or gel pores. The amount of capillary pores is in excellent agreemen ...

Elsevier2017

Synthesis strategies to extend the variety of alginate-based hybrid hydrogels for cell microencapsulation

Sandrine Gerber, François Rémi Pierre Noverraz, Jutta Christine Wandrey, Solène Marcelle Françoise Marie Passemard, Luca Szabó

The production of hydrogel microspheres (MS) for cell immobilization, maintaining the favorable properties of alginate gels but presenting enhanced performance in terms of in vivo durability and physical properties, is desirable to extend the therapeutic p ...

Amer Chemical Soc2017

Investigation of the preparation method and its effect on the mechanical properties of fiber-reinforced Hydrogels

Peyman Karami, Jens Antons, El Mehdi Soukrati

This work aims to study the mechanical properties of two kinds of hydrogels, the first is based on natural polymers derived from decellularized bovine cartilage tissue and the second is based on synthetic polymers namely polyethyleneglycole dimethacrylate. ...

2017

Crystalline and Soft Materials Based on Dative Boron-Nitrogen Bonds

Nicolas Luisier

The thesis describes the utilization of dative boron-nitrogen bond is used for the construction of new materials. In chapter 2.1, the synthesis of new organogels based on bisimidazolyl ligands and diboronate esters is described. Gels with a critical gel co ...

EPFL2016

Assessment Of The Dispersion Quality Of Refractive Index-Matched Nanodispersions

Véronique Michaud

Dispersion quality has a large influence on the resulting properties of filled polymers, hybrids and nanocomposites in general. Reducing the van der Waals forces and therefore, matching the refractive index between the filler and the matrix should improve ...

Kerschensteiner Verlag Gmbh2016

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