Linking cavitation and fracture to molecular scale structural damage of model networks

Christopher W. Barney, Ipek Sacligil, Gregory N. Tew and Alfred J. Crosby

Soft Matter, 2022, 18, 4220
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How friction and adhesion affect the mechanics of deep penetration in soft solids

Stefano Fregonese and Mattia Bacca

Soft Matter, 2022, 18, 6882
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Measuring interfacial strength of ultra-soft materials with needle-induced cavitation

Hongbo Fu and Alfred J. Crosby

Soft Matter, 2025, 21, 1662
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Experimental observation of near-wall effects during the puncture of soft solids

Christopher W. Barney, Szabolcs Berezvai, Allison L. Chau, Younghoon Kwon, Angela A. Pitenis, Robert M. McMeeking, Megan T. Valentine and Matthew E. Helgeson

Soft Matter, 2024, 20, 3806
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Seeded laser-induced cavitation for studying high-strain-rate irreversible deformation of soft materials

Sacchita Tiwari, Amir Kazemi-Moridani, Yue Zheng, Christopher W. Barney, Kelly R. McLeod, Carey E. Dougan, Alfred J. Crosby, Gregory N. Tew, Shelly R. Peyton, Shengqiang Cai and Jae-Hwang Lee

Soft Matter, 2020, 16, 9006
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Deep indentation and puncture of a rigid cylinder inserted into a soft solid

Christopher W. Barney, Chao Chen and Alfred J. Crosby

Soft Matter, 2021, 17, 5574
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Cavitation in soft matter

Christopher W. Barney, Carey E. Dougan, Kelly R. McLeod, Amir Kazemi-Moridani, Yue Zheng, Ziyu Ye, Sacchita Tiwari, Ipek Sacligil, Robert A. Riggleman, Shengqiang Cai, Jae-Hwang Lee, Shelly R. Peyton, Gregory N. Tew and Alfred J. Crosby

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 2020, 117, 9157
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Needle-induced cavitation: A method to probe the local mechanics of brain tissue

Carey E. Dougan, Hongbo Fu, Alfred J. Crosby and Shelly R. Peyton

Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 2024, 160, 106698
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Mechanically Induced Cavitation in Biological Systems

Chunghwan Kim, Won June Choi, Yisha Ng and Wonmo Kang

Life, 2021, 11, 546
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Unexpected Fracture Behavior of Ultrasoft Associative Hydrogels Due to Strain-Induced Crystallization

Yuanyuan Wei, Jianzhu Ju, Costantino Creton and Tetsuharu Narita

ACS Macro Lett., 2023, 12, 1106
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Bottlebrush Amphiphilic Polymer Co-Networks

Brandon R. Clarke and Gregory N. Tew

Macromolecules, 2022, 55, 5131
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Multi-crack formation in soft solids during high rate cavity expansion

Matt P. Milner and Shelby B. Hutchens

Mechanics of Materials, 2021, 154, 103741
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Dynamic cavitation in soft solids under monotonically increasing pressure

Jingtian Kang and Yanjun Tang

International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2021, 209, 106730
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Elasticity of whole blood clots measured via Volume Controlled Cavity Expansion

Hannah Varner, Gabriella P. Sugerman, Manuel K. Rausch and Tal Cohen

Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 2023, 143, 105901
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Needle-induced-fracking in soft solids with crack blunting

Zhaoqiang Song and Shengqiang Cai

Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2022, 52, 101673
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Small-scale measurement of the transition in fracture behavior of marine sediments

Kelly M. Dorgan, Grant Lockridge and William Cyrus Clemo

Acta Geotech., 2024, 19, 1315
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Network structure influences bulk modulus of nearly incompressible filled silicone elastomers

Christopher W. Barney, Matthew E. Helgeson and Megan T. Valentine

Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2022, 52, 101616
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Methylglyoxal crosslinking increases the fracture toughness of gelatin hydrogels

Anshul Shrivastava and Namrata Gundiah

Mechanics of Materials, 2023, 176, 104524
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Piercing soft solids: A mechanical theory for needle insertion

Stefano Fregonese and Mattia Bacca

Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2021, 154, 104497
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Cavitation Rheology of Model Yield Stress Fluids Based on Carbopol

Hadi Mohammadigoushki and Kourosh Shoele

Langmuir, 2023, 39, 7672
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A method to characterize the cavitation pressure of soft matter under superimposed azimuthal shear

Alexandria Rogers, Yuan Ji, Vladimir Coon, Christopher J. Karber, Jacob A. Rogers and Justin W. Wilkerson

Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2025, 77, 102325
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The Impact of Polymerization Chemistry on the Mechanical Properties of Poly(dimethylsiloxane) Bottlebrush Elastomers

Brandon R. Clarke, Hyemin Kim, Mark Ilton, James J. Watkins, Alfred J. Crosby and Gregory N. Tew

Macromolecules, 2022, 55, 10312
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Molecularly Shielded, On-Demand, Ultrasound-Cured Polymer Networks

Adrian A. Lorenzana, Hsu Shwe Yee Naing, Jichao Song, Jessica D. Schiffman, John Klier and Shelly R. Peyton

Macromolecules, 2024, 57, 6465
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Concentration-Dependent Mechanical Behavior of Physically Assembled Triblock Copolymer Gels

Satish Mishra, Rosa Maria Badani Prado and Santanu Kundu

ACS Appl. Polym. Mater., 2020, 2, 5388
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Molecular View of Cavitation in Model-Solvated Polymer Networks

Ziyu Ye and Robert A. Riggleman

Macromolecules, 2020, 53, 7825
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