Poromechanical modelling of responsive hydrogel pumps
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| author | Webber, Joseph J. Montenegro-Johnson, Thomas D. |
| author_facet | Webber, Joseph J. Montenegro-Johnson, Thomas D. |
| contents | Thermo-responsive hydrogels are smart materials that rapidly switch between hydrophilic (swollen) and hydrophobic (shrunken) states when heated past a threshold temperature, resulting in order-of-magnitude changes in gel volume. Modelling the dynamics of this switch is notoriously difficult, and typically involves fitting a large number of microscopic material parameters to experimental data. In this paper, we present and validate an intuitive, macroscopic description of responsive gel dynamics and use it to explore the shrinking, swelling and pumping of responsive hydrogel displacement pumps for microfluidic devices. We finish with a discussion on how such tubular structures may be used to speed up the response times of larger hydrogel smart actuators and unlock new possibilities for dynamic shape change. |
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| spellingShingle | Poromechanical modelling of responsive hydrogel pumps Webber, Joseph J. Montenegro-Johnson, Thomas D. Fluid Dynamics Soft Condensed Matter 74F10 Thermo-responsive hydrogels are smart materials that rapidly switch between hydrophilic (swollen) and hydrophobic (shrunken) states when heated past a threshold temperature, resulting in order-of-magnitude changes in gel volume. Modelling the dynamics of this switch is notoriously difficult, and typically involves fitting a large number of microscopic material parameters to experimental data. In this paper, we present and validate an intuitive, macroscopic description of responsive gel dynamics and use it to explore the shrinking, swelling and pumping of responsive hydrogel displacement pumps for microfluidic devices. We finish with a discussion on how such tubular structures may be used to speed up the response times of larger hydrogel smart actuators and unlock new possibilities for dynamic shape change. |
| title | Poromechanical modelling of responsive hydrogel pumps |
| topic | Fluid Dynamics Soft Condensed Matter 74F10 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01435 |