دانلود کتاب مکانیک هیدروژل ها – خواص مکانیکی، آزمایش و کاربردها

In recent years, hydrogels e one of the advanced materials e have attracted increasingly more attention thanks to their suitability for a wide range of emerging applications. For example, hydrogels are adopted in various biological systems due to their unique properties such as biocompatibility and biostability, biomimetic applications such as soft robots, as well as medical/pharmaceutical applications such as drug delivery systems, articular cartilage, biomaterial scaffolds, corneal replacement, and tissue engineering. However, a common and serious concern regarding hydrogels is their mechanical properties. A large amount of interstitial water within networked structure of cross-linked hydrophilic polymer chains results in the hydrogels’ soft mechanical behavior. This often becomes an obvious limitation to their various applications, especially in biological and medical fields. As such, it is critically important to develop the mechanics of hydrogels, in order to obtain a deep understanding of the fundamental mechanisms of deformation, damage and fracture, mechanical characteristics of soft hydrogels, and also to provide a bridge between the mechanical and biological performance of hydrogels so as to push the mechanical application of hydrogels beyond their current boundaries.