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High‐Tensile Strength, Composite Bijels Through Microfluidic Twisting, S. P. Kharal, Robert P. Hesketh, Martin F. Haase
High‐Tensile Strength, Composite Bijels Through Microfluidic Twisting, S. P. Kharal, Robert P. Hesketh, Martin F. Haase
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Rope making is a millennia old technique to collectively assemble numerous weak filaments into flexible and high tensile strength bundles. However, delicate soft matter fibers lack the robustness to be twisted into bundles by means of mechanical rope making tools. Here, weak microfibers with tensile strengths of a few kilopascals are combined into ropes via microfluidic twisting. This is demonstrated for recently introduced fibers made of bicontinuous interfacially jammed emulsion gels (bijels). Bijels show promising applications in use as membranes, microreactors, energy and healthcare materials, but their low tensile strength make reinforcement strategies imperative. Hydrodynamic twisting allows to produce continuous …
Study And Characterization Of Conductive Elastomers For Biomedical Applications, Hadis Gharacheh
Study And Characterization Of Conductive Elastomers For Biomedical Applications, Hadis Gharacheh
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Health issues have always been one of humankind's biggest challenges. Over the last century, there has been significant and monumental progress in health and biomedical science, with the end goal of alleviating and eliminating illnesses and ailments. For developing biomedical devices, polymers and elastomers group among other types of biomaterials have been highlighted to be used due to high flexibility, stability, biocompatibility, and mechanical and rheological characteristics. In this work, the characterization of acrylated poly glycerol_sebacate (PGSA) polymer conjugated with bio ionic liquid (BIL) was investigated. Results showed high biocompatibility, high printability with tunable mechanical, adhesive, and conductivity properties. For …