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Phosphoric Acid-Imbibed Three-Dimensional Polyacrylamide/Poly(Vinyl Alcohol) Hyrdogel As A New Class Of High-Temperature Proton Exchange Membrane, Qunwei Tang, Kevin Huang, Guoging Qian, Brian Benicewicz Feb 2015

Phosphoric Acid-Imbibed Three-Dimensional Polyacrylamide/Poly(Vinyl Alcohol) Hyrdogel As A New Class Of High-Temperature Proton Exchange Membrane, Qunwei Tang, Kevin Huang, Guoging Qian, Brian Benicewicz

Kevin Huang

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Application Of Limited Mixing In The Hele-Shaw Geometry In Fabrication Of Janus Hydrogels, Md Mahmudur Rahman Jul 2014

Application Of Limited Mixing In The Hele-Shaw Geometry In Fabrication Of Janus Hydrogels, Md Mahmudur Rahman

Md Mahmudur Rahman

It is widely accepted that cells behave differently responding to the stiffness of their extracellular matrix (ECM). Such observations were made by culturing cells on hydrogel substrates of tunable stiffness. However, it was recently proposed that cells may sense how strongly they are tethered to ECM, not the local stiffness of ECM. To investigate both hypotheses, we developed a method to fabricate Janus polyacrylamide (PAAM) gels. We squeeze two drops of different concentrations in the Hele-Shaw geometry to generate radial Stokes flow. When the drops coalesce, limited mixing occurs at the interface due to the narrow confinement, and diffusion normal …