Polymer gels are subjected to large-strain deformation during their applications. The gel deformation at large-strain is non-linear and can often lead to failure of the material. Here, we report the large-strain deformation behavior of a physically cross-linked, swollen triblock copolymer gel, which displays unique strain-stiffening response at large-strain. Investigations were performed using ...

Macroscopic instabilities of fiber reinforced composites undergoing large deformations are studied. Analytical predictions for the onset of instability are determined by application of a new variational estimate for the behavior of hyperelastic composites. The resulting, closed-form expressions, are compared with corresponding predictions of finite element simulations. The simulations are perfo...

We compare the results from time-resolved fluorescence anisotropy experiments and molecular modelling on perylene bisimide acrylate dimers which allows us to connect the observed spectral signatures unambiguously with the non-stacked and two (parallel and anti-parallel) stacked conformations. For the parallel stacked conformation the experimental data can be reproduced quantitatively using a mo...

Book review of: Lies Van de Vijver, Guy Dupont and Roel Vande Winkel, Gent Filmstad: Cinema’s en filmaffiches, 1938–1961 (Antwerpen/Amsterdam: Houtekiet, 2021), 278 pp., ISBN 978-90-8924-994-4 Gyz La Rivière, Home Video: Videotheken & Video in Groot-Rotterdam (Rotterdam: nai010 uitgevers, 432 978-94-6208-663-0.

Boye Buyens, Jutho Haegeman, Henri Verschelde, Frank Verstraete, and Karel Van Acoleyen Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281, S9, 9000 Gent, Belgium Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology, Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse 5, 1090 Vienna, Austria (Received 12 October 2015; revised manuscript received 27 June 2016; published 23 No...

The challenge formulated in this paper is a direct reaction to the reviewer selection process of IJCAI 1997, which relied on an unintelli-gent string matching program. We challenge the AI community to implement an intelligent knowledge-based reviewer selection program for IJCAI 1999.