Written at a level comprehensible to non-experts, this handbook covers the current state of
encapsulation and controlled released technologies, presenting the fundamental processes …

Bringing together basic ideas, classical theories, recent experimental and theoretical
aspects, this book explains desiccation cracks from simple, easily-comprehensible cases to …

Hydrogels are highly hydrated polymer networks. The synergistic association of a fluid and
an elastic phase is the key of numerous applications of hydrogels as food or cosmetic …

A partially-wetting liquid can deform the underlying elastic substrate upon which it rests. This
situation requires the development of theoretical models to describe the wetting forces …

Marangoni spreading on thin films is widely observed in nature and applied in industry. It
has serious implications for airway drug delivery, especially in surfactant displacement …

A wide range of thermoreversible gels are prepared by cooling down to ambient
temperature hot aqueous polymer solutions. During the sol-gel transition, such materials …

Recording kinetics during a reaction is a challenging effort that provides significant insight
into gelation. We recently published our work based on a novel custom-made rheometric …

Highly-deformable materials, from synthetic hydrogels to biological tissues, are becoming
increasingly important from both fundamental and practical perspectives. Their mechanical …

A phase-field model is used to capture the surfactant-driven formation of fracture patterns in
particulate monolayers. The model is intended for the regime of closely-packed systems in …

We investigate the delayed rupture of biopolymer gels under a constant shear load by
simultaneous dynamic light scattering and rheology measurements. We unveil the crucial …