Phase-shift droplets are a highly adaptable platform for biomedical applications of
ultrasound. The spatiotemporal response of phase-shift droplets to focused ultrasound …

Background Hydrogels are one of the most ubiquitous polymeric materials. Among them
gelatin, agarose and polyacrylamide-based formulations have been effectively utilized in a …

Background Digital image correlation is a useful tool in many engineering disciplines to
measure and visualize deformation fields. Noteworthily, its successful application is critically …

Gelatin hydrogels are attractive scaffold materials for tissue engineering applications as they
provide motifs for cell attachment, undergo large deformations, and are tunable. Low …

The dynamic collapse of pores under shock loading is thought to be directly related to hot
spot generation and material failure, which is critical to the performance of porous energetic …

Accurate determination of high strain rate (> 10 3 1/s) constitutive properties of soft materials
remains a formidable challenge. Albeit recent advancements among experimental …

Background Full-field, quantitative visualization techniques, such as digital image
correlation (DIC), have unlocked vast opportunities for experimental mechanics. However …

Abstract Digital Image Correlation (DIC) is a widely used experimental technique for
measuring full-field deformations. However, its applicability to samples with irregular …

Inertial interface cavitation is a well-appreciated phenomenon in many natural, biological,
and physical processes. The existence of impedance changes across an interface can …

The rapid and accurate characterization of soft, viscoelastic materials at high strain rates is
of interest in biological and engineering applications such as assessing the extent of non …