Advanced Smart Hydrogel Modeling provides structured computational models alongside experimental validation for predicting hydrogel performance under complex biochemical and physical stimuli. Guidance on using these models in specific biomedical and engineering applications is also covered, as are the latest developments in the area of hydrogels. Stimuli discussed include magnetic field, pressure coupled with temperature, pH coupled with magnetic field, salt concentration, light, glucose or carbohydrate concentration, urea concentration, and pH coupled with oxygen concentration.
The book also includes a chapter discussing the plant mimosa pudica as a smart natural plant system, focusing on two-dimensional biochemical-electrical-mechanical transient models to capture its rapid collapse and slow recovery movements, providing a bridge from smart artificial synthesis materials to smart natural materials.
The book also includes a chapter discussing the plant mimosa pudica as a smart natural plant system, focusing on two-dimensional biochemical-electrical-mechanical transient models to capture its rapid collapse and slow recovery movements, providing a bridge from smart artificial synthesis materials to smart natural materials.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction to Modeling of Smart Hydrogels2. Development of Multi-Effect-Coupling Magnetic-Stimulus (MECm) Model for Magnetic-Sensitive Hydrogels
3. Development of Multi-Effect-Coupling Magnetic-pH-Stimuli (MECmpH) Model for Dual Magnetic-pH-Sensitive Hydrogels
4. Development of Magneto-Mechanical Model for Magnetic Elastomers Based Microactuators
5. Development of Multi-Effect-Coupling Ionic-Strength-Stimulus (MECis) Model for Ionic-Strength-Sensitive Hydrogel
6. Development of Multi-Effect-Coupling Photo-Stimulus (MECp) Model for Photon-Sensitive Hydrogel
7. Development of Multi-Effect-Coupling Glucose-Stimulus (MECglu) Model for Glucose-Sensitive Hydrogel
8. Development of Multi-Effect-Coupling Urea-Stimulus (MECu) Model for Urease-Loaded Hydrogels
9. Development of Multi-Effect Coupling Oxygen-pH Stimuli (MECopH) Model for Hemoglobin-Loaded Polyelectrolyte
10. Development of Multi-Effect-Coupling Pressure-Thermal-Stimuli (MECpresstherm) Model for Dual Pressure-Thermal-Sensitive Hydrogels
11. Mechanical Characteristics of Gel, Dielectric Gel, and Smart Hydrogel by Finite Element Analysis
12. Development of Chemo-Electro-Thermo-Mechanical Models for Transitions of Phases in Physical Hydrogels between Gel and Solution Phases Identified via Density of Crosslinks
13. Theoretically Modeling Extension to Mimosa pudica as a Smart Natural Plant System
