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Inkjet Printing Of Self-Assembling Polyelectrolyte Hydrogels, Skander Limen, Donald Mccallum, Gordon G. Wallace, Marc In Het Panhuis, Paul Calvert
Inkjet Printing Of Self-Assembling Polyelectrolyte Hydrogels, Skander Limen, Donald Mccallum, Gordon G. Wallace, Marc In Het Panhuis, Paul Calvert
Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)
Inkjet printing of alternate layers of anionic and cationic polyelectrolytes allows organized gels to form with structures similar to those made by layer-by-layer dipping methods but very much faster. Structures of gels formed using slow and fast inkjet printing systems are compared using elemental analysis, swelling and diffusion kinetics as characterization methods. After printing and washing, most sodium or chloride counter-ions are lost from the gel, leaving only the polymer complex. The swelling properties of the printed and washed gel depend on the deposition rate and on the ratio of the two polymers as originally printed.
Realizing Virtuality: Tracing The Contours Of Digital Culture, Nicholas Andrew Riggs
Realizing Virtuality: Tracing The Contours Of Digital Culture, Nicholas Andrew Riggs
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
People connect digitally through social media, fusing their relationships with meaning in a non-space of relational potential--a translucent and fluctuating enclave where the self becomes elastic. This thesis explores how I have formed bonds in virtual space through ritual interaction. Looking at the ways I learned to use technology through the progression of a close personal relationship, I suggest that social media use is a performance of identity--a virtuality that exposes how people negotiate the digital enclosure of contemporary society. My story is one of digital nativity and reclaiming love through virtual performance. I show how these performances have had …