Abstract
A technique for the real-time visualization of material line movement during transparent gel deformation was developed based on caged photo-activated fluorophores covalently attached to the gel network. It is used to quantitatively monitor the swelling of sodium polyacrylate and poly(acrylamide-sodium acrylate) gels in quasi two-dimensional constrained geometries. The experimentally obtained profiles for the Finger deformation tensor and the polymer concentration are compared with transient simulations of a model of transport in polyelectrolyte gels.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2128-2139 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | AIChE Journal |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue number | 11 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2000 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Biotechnology
- Environmental Engineering
- General Chemical Engineering