Coupled chemo-electro-mechanical simulation for smart hydrogels that are responsive to an external electric field

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1185-1191

  Luo, Rongmo ^a,b   Li, Hua ^c   Lam, K Y ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE DENSITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PH EFFECTS;

CHEMO-ELECTRO-MECHANICAL SIMULATION; ELECTRIC SENSITIVE HYDROGELS; FINITE DEFORMATION; SMART HYDROGELS;

HYDROGELS;

EID: 34547475038     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/16/4/029     Document Type: Article

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