Quasi-unidirectional shrinkage of gels with well-oriented lipid bilayers upon uniaxial stretching
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Quasi-unidirectional shrinkage of gels with well-oriented lipid bilayers upon uniaxial stretching.
PDGI-PAAm gels with well oriented lipid bilayers show a quasi-unidirectional shrinkage upon uniaxial stretching along the bilayers. They shrink largely parallel to the bilayer but slightly perpendicular to it in order not to increase the bilayer area and its interfacial energy. Such an anisotropic deformation can be well-modelled based on classical theories for gel networks and lipid layers.
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عنوان ژورنال: Soft Matter
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1744-683X,1744-6848
DOI: 10.1039/c4sm02113d